| Fragments - 1760 - 82 pages
...Fingal! O Connal! it was here thou didft fall. Thine arm was like a ftorm ; thy fword, abeam of the iky; thy height, a rock on the plain ; thine eyes, a furnace of fire. Louder than a ftorm was thy voice, when thou confoundedft the field. Warriors fell by thy fword, as the thiftle by... | |
| Robert Dodsley - English essays - 1761 - 378 pages
...Wars of Fingal! O Connal! it was here thou didft fall. Thine Arm was like a Storm ; thy Sword a Beam of the Sky ; thy Height, a Rock on the Plain,; thine...Furnace of Fire. Louder than a Storm was thy Voice, when thou confoundedft the Field. Warriors fell by thy Sword, as the Thiftle by the Staff of a Boy.... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1761 - 380 pages
...Wars of Flngall O Connal! it was here thou didft fall. Thine Arm was like a Storm ; thy Sword a Beam of the Sky ; thy Height, a Rock on the Plain ; thine...Furnace of Fire. Louder than a Storm was thy Voice, when thou confoundedft the Field. Warriors fell by thy Sword, as the Thiftle by the Staff of a Boy.... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...O Connal ! it was here thou didft fall. Thine arm was like a ftorm ; thy fword a beam of the fky ; thy height, a rock on the plain ; thine eyes, a furnace of fire. Louder than a ftorm was thy voice, in the battles of thy fteel. Warriors fell by thy fword, as the thifile by the... | |
| English literature - 1765 - 374 pages
...falj. Thine Arm vyas like a Storm ; thy Sword a Beam of the Sky ; thy Height, a Rock on the Plain j thine Eyes, a Furnace of Fire. Louder than a Storm was thy Voice, when thou confoundedft the Field. Warriors fell by thy Sword, as the Thiftle by the Staff _of a Boy.... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1771 - 390 pages
...Wars of F'tngal ! O Connal! it was here thou didft fall. Thine Arm was like a Storm ; thy Sword a Beam of the Sky; thy Height,, a Rock on the Plain ; thine Eyes, a Furnace of Fire. Louder than a Stonn was thy Voice, when thou confoundeft the Field. Warriors fell by thy Sword, as the Thiftle by... | |
| Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...O Connal ! it was here thou didft fall. Thine arm was like a florm $ thy fword a beam of the fky ; thy height, a rock on the plain ; thine eyes, a furnace of fire. Louder than a florm was thy voice, jp the battles of tlfy ft eel. Warriors fell by thy fword, as the thiftle by the... | |
| English poetry - 1774 - 428 pages
...O Connal ! it was here thou didft fall. Thine arm was like a ftorm ; thy fword a beam of the fky ; thy height a rock on the plain ; thine eyes a furnace of fire. Louder than a ftorm was thy voice; when thou confoundedll the field, warriors fell by thy fword, as ,a thiftle by... | |
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 274 pages
...wars of Fingal ! O Connal ! it was here thou didft fall. Thine arm was like a ftorm ; thy fword a beam of the sky •, thy height , a rock on the plain ; thine eyes , a furnace of fire. Louder than a ftorm was thy voice , in the battles of thy fteel. Warriors fell by thy fword, as the thiftle by the... | |
| Daniel Webb - English literature - 1787 - 276 pages
...voice, when thou confoandedft the field. Warriors fell by thy fword, as the thiftle by the ftaffof a boy. DARGO the mighty came on, like a cloud of thunder. His brows werecontracted and dark. His eyes like two caves in a rock. Bright rofe their fwords on each fide;... | |
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