 | Poetry - 1773 - 466 pages
...eyes, and dark winding of locks of mift. IT was * dark. The fleeping hoft were ftill, in the fkirts of night. The flame decayed, on the hill of Fingal ; the king lay lonely on his flueld. His eyes were half-clofed in fleep ; the voice of Fillan came. " Sleeps the hufband of that... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1779 - 288 pages
...propriery , ii slioii and avjal, K n 17i TEMORA: BOOK VIT 1: is (t) dark. The flecping hoft \vcre ftill, in the skirts of night. The flame decayed, on the...; the king lay lonely on his shield. His eyes were half-clofed in fleep ; the voice of Fillan came. « Sleeps the husband of Clatho ? Dwells the father... | |
 | 1799 - 252 pages
...eyet: and dark winding of locks of mift. It was f dark. The fleeping hoft were ftill, in the fldrts of night. The flame decayed on the hill of Fingal; the king lay lonely on his fhield. His eyes were nalf-clofed in fleep ; the voice of Fillan came. " Sleeps the hulband of Clatho?... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1803 - 386 pages
...the form returned again. It returned with bending eyes, and dark winding of locks of mist. It was f dark. The sleeping host were still, in the skirts...; the king lay lonely on his shield. His eyes were half closed in sleep; the voice of Fillan came. * As the mist, which rose from the lake of Lego, occasioned... | |
 | 1803 - 388 pages
...whitebosomed dweller between my at ms ; than a fair-handed daughter of heroes, in the hour of rest." « Sleeps the husband of Clatho ? Dwells the father of the fallen in rest ? Am I forgot in the folds of darkness; lonely in the season of night ?" " Why dost thou mix," said the king,... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...rolled him together : but the form returned again. It returned with bending eyes, and dark winding of locks of mist. It was * dark. The sleeping host...were half-closed in sleep ; the voice of Fillan came 3. " Sleeps the husband of the airy hall of Fingal, without either mist or song ; and no explanation... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...rolled him together : but the form returned again. It returned with bending eyes, and dark winding of locks of mist. It was* dark. The sleeping host...were half-closed in sleep ; the voice of Fillan came 3. " Sleeps the husband of ttc airy hall of Fingal, without either mist or song ; and no explanation... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 364 pages
...wrote the distich, a circuwUnct, which we might have supposed, without tUo aid of tradition. •kirts of night. The flame decayed, on the hill of Fingal; the king lay lonely on his shield. His eyes were half closed in sleep; the voice of Fillan came. "Sleeps the husband of Clatho? Dwells the father of... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 402 pages
...times, rolled him together: but the form returned again. It returned with bending eyes, and dark-winding locks of mist. It was dark. ' The sleeping host were...Clatho? Dwells the father of the fallen in rest? Am I forgot in the folds of darkness ; lonely in the season of night ?" the spirit of the nearest relation... | |
 | Patrick Graham - Ogham stones - 1807 - 512 pages
..." Am bhdl cuimhne — 'smi an trusgan nan mat, " 'Smi 'm aonar ann am na h' oichef MR MACFHEKSON S in the skirts of night. The flame decayed on the hill...in sleep. The voice of Fillan came : — " Sleeps * A striking coincidence, uol only of thought, but even of expression, will be found between this nightly... | |
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Sleeps the husband of Clatho? Dwells the father of the fallen in rest? Am I forgot in the folds of darkness , lonely in the season of night? " "Why dost thou mix," said the king, "with the dreams of thy father? 
