As autumn's dark storms pour from two echoing hills, so towards each other approached the heroes. As two dark streams from high rocks meet and mix, and roar on the plain: loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Inisfail. ... As the troubled noise... The Poems of Ossian - Page 3951773Full view - About this book
| SEVERAL HANDS - 1762 - 536 pages
...manners defcribed in other parts of the poem. The battle begun, the general onfet is well defcribed. *' As Autumn's dark ftorms pour from two echoing hills,...; loud, rough, and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Innis-fail. Chief mixed his flrokes with chief, and man with man ; flecl, clanging, founded on ftecl,... | |
| History - 1762 - 618 pages
...(m'.hr one in Homer, Iliad »cr. 446. Now each oiher approached the heroes. — As two dark flreams from high rocks meet, and mix and roar on the plain; loud, rough -and dark death of the noble Sithallin*.^— Let the fighs of Fiona rile on the dark heaths of her lovely Ardan.... | |
| Hugh Blair - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1763 - 94 pages
...autumn's dark ftorms pour from two echoing hills, « c towards each other, approached the heroes. As twp dark " ftreams from high rocks meet, and mix, and...loud, rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin and Iniffaif. « Chief mixed his ftrokes with chief, and man with man. Steel « clanging, founded on fteel.... | |
| 1765 - 520 pages
...leave the reader to judge between them. He will find images of the fame kind employed; commonly Ids extended •, but thrown forth with a glowing rapidity...and *' roar on the plain ; loud, rough, and dark in bat" tie, meet Lochlin and Inisfail. Chief mixed his " ftrokes with chief, and man with man. Steel... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 534 pages
...echoing hills ; toward each other approached the heroes: as two dark ftreams from high rocks, meet and roar on the plain; loud, rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin and Inisfail. Chief mixes his ftrokes with chief, and man with man : fteel founds on fteel, and helmets are cleft on high... | |
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1779 - 250 pages
...of Lochlin. (i) The reader may compare this pafTage with a fimilat one in Homer. Iliad. 4. v. 446. echoing hills, towards each other approached the heroes....; loud, rough and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Innis-fail. Chief mixed his ftrokes with chief, and man with man ; ft.ee! , clanging, founded on fteel... | |
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...ftorms pour from two echoing hills, towaM ,. each other , approached the heroes. As rwo j, dark flreams from high rocks meet, and mix, » and roar on the...dark » in battle , meet Lochlin and Inisfail. Chief mix» ed his ftrokes with chief, and man with man. » Steel clanging , founded on fteel. Hcbnets are... | |
| Hugh Blair - English language - 1787 - 482 pages
...Fingal. " As autumn's dark ftorms pour from two " echoing hills, fo toward each other ap" proached the heroes. As two dark ftreams " from high rocks...and roar on " the plain : loud, rough, and dark, in tc battle^ met Lochlin and Inisfail ; chief " mixed his ftrokes with chief, and man with " man. Steel... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 548 pages
...two echoing hills, toward each other approached the heroes : as two dark ftreams from high rocks meet and roar on the plain, loud, rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin and Inisfail. Chief mixes his ftrokes with chief, and man with man : fteel founds on fteel, and helmets are cleft on high... | |
| Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...toward each other approached the heroes. Like two deep ftreams from high rocks meeting, mixing, roaring on the plain; loud, rough and dark in battle meet Lochlin and Innis- fail. Chief mixes his ftrokes with chief, and man with man ; fteel, clanging, founds on fteel.... | |
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