Thus have I seen in Cona; but Cona I behold no more; thus have I seen two dark hills removed from their place by the strength of the mountain stream. They turn from side to side, and their tall oaks meet one another on high. Then they fall together with... Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Page 142edited by - 1806Full view - About this book
| Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...hills removed from their place by the ftrength of the burfting ftream. They turn from fide to fide, and their tall oaks meet one another on high. Then they fall together with all their rocks and * This paffage refembles one in the twenty-third Iliad* Clofe lock'd above their heads and arms are... | |
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1779 - 250 pages
...hills removed from their place by the itrength of the burfting itreara. They turn from fide to fide , and their tall oaks meet one another on high. Then...they fall together •with all their rocks and trees. The ftreams are turned by their fides , and the red ruin isfeenafar. Sons of the king of Morven , faid... | |
| Malcolm Laing - Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600 - 1800 - 500 pages
...hills " removed from their place by the ftrength of the moun" tain ftream. They turn from fide to fide, and their " tall oaks meet one another on high. Then...they fall " together with all their rocks and trees." " As if on earth, " Winds under ground, or waters forcing way, " Side long had pufhed a mountain from... | |
| James Macpherson - 1803 - 386 pages
...fell : the king of the groves is bound. Thus have I seen on Cona ; but Cona I behold no more ! thus have I seen two dark hills, removed from their place, by the strength of the bursting stream. They turn from side to side itt their fall ; their tall oaks meet one another on high.... | |
| Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...Cona, but Cona I behold no more,' (the ballads contain no intimation that Ossian was blind) " thus have I seen two dark hills removed from their place...they fall together with all their rocks and " trees." "As if on garth, " Winds under grburld, or waters forcing way, " Side long had pushed a mountain from... | |
| Malcolm Laing - Darnley murder - 1804 - 556 pages
...Cona, but Cona I behold no more,' (the ballads contain no intimation that Ossian was blind) " thus have I seen two dark hills removed from their place...side to side, and their tall oaks meet one another on u high. Then they fall together with all their rocks and " trees." " As if on earth, " Winds under... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1805 - 512 pages
...applause, in the eighteenth century, " Thus have I seen in Cona; but Cona I behold no more—- thus have I seen two dark hills removed from their place...But had a blind bard, or any other bard, presumed tx> utter such a rhapsody of bombast in the hall of shells, amid the savage warriors, to whom Ossian... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...fell ; and the king of groves is bound. Thus have I seen on Cona ; (but Cona I behold no more,) thus have I seen two dark hills removed from their place by the strength of the bursting stream. They turn from side to side, and their tall oaks meet one another on high. Then they... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...fell : the king of the groves is hound. Thus have 1 seen on Cona ; but Cona I behold no more ! thus have I seen two dark hills, removed from their place, by the strength of the bursting stream. They turn from side to side in their fall ; their tall oaks meet one another on high.... | |
| Richard Payne Knight - Art - 1806 - 508 pages
...Thus " have I seen in Cona; but Cona I behold no " more — thus have I seen two dark hills re" moved from their place by the strength of the *' mountain...hall of shells, amid the savage warriors, to whom Ossian is supposed to have sung, he would have needed all the influence of royal birth, attributed... | |
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