| Ann Doherty - 1812 - 374 pages
...• Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. ' Strings murmur on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. ' Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night ' As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high, " As the last peal of thunder in... | |
| Ossian - 1845 - 546 pages
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings murmur on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night : as the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. As the last peal of thunder in heaven,... | |
| James Macpherson - 1846 - 560 pages
...fjerran". Denna rad har MACPHERSON på det most bisarra vis omskapat; den låter nemligej, hos honom: "Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of nig h t". *I) — — de fallne och huru de stupat, efter orden: hvarje hufvudlös kropp och döden,... | |
| Ossian - 1870 - 596 pages
...steeL Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings murmur on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high ; as the last peal of thunder in heaven,... | |
| Thomas Bulfinch - Celts - 1900 - 490 pages
...steel, helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings twang on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light that gild the stormy face of night. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the waves on high:... | |
| 1901 - 452 pages
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings murmur on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night. Swaran king of Lochlin. After a series of great actions he was killed in battle somewhere in Connaught,... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings murmur on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high, as the last peal of thunder in heaven,... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings murmur on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high, as the last peal of thunder in heaven,... | |
| Richard Green Moulton - Literature - 1911 - 550 pages
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings murmur on the polished yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the circles of light, which gild the face of night : as the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. Ai the last peal of thunder in heaven,... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smokes around. Strings murmur on the polished yews. Darts rush along the' sky. Spears fall like the circles of light which gild the face of night. As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high, as the last peal of thunder in heaven,... | |
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