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The Poems of Ossian - Page 338
1785 - 435 pages
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 25

English literature - 1763 - 784 pages
..."on every occalion, by humanity anil generoiity. He is merciful to his foes * ; full of affection to his children, full of concern about his friends ;...mentions Agandecca, his firft love, without the utmoft tendernels. He is the univerfal proteetor of the diltreiîèd : " None ever went fad from Fingal. О...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 2

1765 - 520 pages
...Jj full of affection to his children ; full of concern about his friends •, and never rrientions Agandecca, his firft love, without the utmoft tendernefs...." the foes of thy people ; but like the gale that • Iliad 1 6. 830, II. 17. 127. •}• Vol. ip 92. £ When he commands his fons, after Swaran is...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal

Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...T;rathal the father of heroes. They fought the battled in their youth, and are the fong of bards. • 0 Ofcar ! bend the ftrong in arms : but fpare the feeble...many tides againft the foes of thy people ; but like thd gale that moves the grafs to thofe who afk thind aid. So Trenmbr lived ; fuch Trathal Was $ and...
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Sketches of the History of Man, Volume 1

Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1779 - 566 pages
...ftretched forth to the unhappy, my " fword defends the weak (k}." " O Ofcar ! bend the ftrong in arm, but " fpare the feeble hand. Be thou a ftream of many...of " thy people, but like the gale that moves the grafc to thofe who afk thy aid. " Never fearch for the battle, nor fhun it when it comes. So Trenmor...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal,

Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1779 - 250 pages
...battle in- their youth , and are the fong of bards.- O Oicar ! bend the ftrong in arms : but fpatc the feeble hand* Be thou a ftream of many tides againft the foes of thy people ; bin like the gale that moves the grafs to thofe who ask thine aidi — So Trenmor lived ; fuch Trathal...
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The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 4

Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...Iliad ,7. 127. ** When he command! hit font, after Swaran i« taken C6 60 A CRITICAL DISSERTATION to his children ; full of concern about his friends ;...without the utmoft tendernefs. He is the univerfal proteflor of the diftrefied ; « None ever » went fad from Fingal «. - « O Ofcar! bend » the ftrong...
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Elements of Criticism, Volume 2

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 590 pages
...beautiful attitudes of his heroes. Take the following inftances. O Ofcar ! bend the ftrong in arm ; but fpare the feeble hand. Be thou a ftream of many tides againll the foes of thy people ; but like the gale that moves the grafs to thofe who afk thine aid....
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 24

English literature - 1762 - 762 pages
...addreiles his grandlon Ofcar in the following beautiful apoftrophe. " O Ofcar ! bend the ftrong in arm, but fpare the feeble hand. Be thou a ftream of many...foes of thy people, but like the gale that moves the graft to ' thofe who alk thin* aid. So Trenmor lived ; fuch Trathal was ; and fuch has Fingal been....
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 7, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 446 pages
...oiftinguiihed on every occauon by humanity and generofity. He is merciful to his foes, full of affcnion to his children, full of concern about his friends, and never mentions Agandecca, his iirtt love, without the utmolt tenderHe is the univerfal proteftor of the diftreiTed ; none ever went...
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The poems of Ossian, tr. by J. Macpherson, Volume 4

Ossian - 1801 - 364 pages
...on every occafion , by humanity and gentrofity. He is merciful to his foes(18)5 full of affection to his children; full .of concern about his friends;...utmoft tendernefs. He is the univerfal protector of the diftreffed ; "None ever went fad from Fingal.'-'—. "O Cfear ! bend the ftrong in arms i "but fpare...
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