 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1779 - 250 pages
...the hills ; it was like the thunder of night , when the clouct burfts on Cona ; and a thoufand ghofts shriek at once on the hollow wind. Fingal rushed on in his ftrength , terrible as the fpirit of Trenmor ; when , in 3 whirlwind , he comes to Morven to fee the... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 464 pages
...whole people. " The groans of <he people spread over the hills ; they were like the thunder of the night when the cloud bursts on Cona, and a thousand ghosts shriek at once on the hollow wind : silence darkened the land around ; blasts • sighed lonely on grassy tombs."* After _J After every... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...all which I scruple not to believe, that the groan of the people spread over the hills, that it was like the thunder of night when the cloud bursts on Cona, and that a thousand ghosts shrieked at once on the hollow wind. I can even believe that lish it to the... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 352 pages
...comparison that Homer uses on this subject. " The groan of the people spread " over the hills ; it was like the thunder of night, " when the cloud bursts...thousand " ghosts shriek at once on the hollow wind." Never was an image of more awful sublimity employed to heighten the terror of battle. Both poets compare... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...comparison that Homer uses on this subject. " The groar: " of the peopte spread over the hills ; it was like the " thunder of night, when the cloud bursts...thousand ghosts shriek at once on the hollow " wind." Never was an image of more awful subhmity employed to heighten the terror of battle. Both poets compare... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...course ! Ryno went on like a pillar of fire. Dark is the brow of Gaul. Fergus rushed forward with 11 Terrible as the spirit of Trenmor ; when, in a whirlwind, he comes to Moreen.] ADDISOK'S Campaign. So when an angel, by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...comparison that Homer uses on this subject. " The groan of the people spread " over the hills ; it was like the thunder of night, when " the cloud bursts...thousand ghosts shriek " at once on the hollow wind." Never was an image of more awful sublimity employed to heighten the terror of battle. Both poets compare... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 406 pages
...batde. The groan of the people spread *' over the hills. It was like the thunder of night, when 4' the cloud bursts on Cona, and a thousand Ghosts shriek " at once on the hollow wind." Never were images of more, awful Sublimity employed to heighten the terror of battle. I have produced... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 458 pages
...comparison that Homer uses on this subject. " The groan of the people spread over " the hills ; it was like the thunder of night, " when the cloud bursts on Cona ; and a thou" sand ghosts shriek at once on the hollow " wind." Never was an image of more awful sublimity... | |
 | 1810 - 378 pages
...terrible, the armies mixed on Lena's eehoing heath. The groan of the people spread over the hills: it was like the thunder of night, when the cloud bursts on Cona; and a thousand ghosts shriek at onee on the hollow wind. Fingal rushed on in his strength, terrible as the spirit of Trenmor ; H 2... | |
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... desert; so roaring, so vast, so terrible, the armies mixed on Lena's echoing heath. The groan of the people spread over the hills: it was like the thunder of night, when the cloud bursts on Cona, and a thousand ghosts shriek at once on the hollow... 
