 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pagina’s
...die simile of the two torrents precedes, and in Homer, it succeeds the description of the battle. 50 As the noise of the troubled ocean, when roll the waves on high. At the last peal of thunder in heaven4.] From the introductory simile to the first battle in the Iliad.... | |
 | Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - 1805 - 532 pagina’s
...the heroes of these wait unshaken, [shore. To repell the force of those, as they were bending to the ocean, when roll the waves on high. As the last peal of thunder iu heaven, such is the din of war ! Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, to give the fight to... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 262 pagina’s
...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 : as the last peal of the thunder of heaven, such is the noise of battle. Though Cormac's hundred bards were there to give... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1806 - 254 pagina’s
...pouring thick around. The bow-string sounded to the polished yew ; Darts rushed along the sky ; 425 MACPHERSON'S TRANSLATION. As the noise of the troubled...Such is the din of war ! 430 Though Cormac's hundred hards were there, To give the fight to song ; Feeble was the voice of a hundred bards, To send the... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 364 pagina’s
...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...peal of thunder in heaven, such is the din of war ! Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, to give the fight to song; feeble was the voice of a hundred... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pagina’s
...steel. " Helmets are cleft on high ; blood bursts and smoaks " around. — As the. troubled noise of the ocean, when roll " the waves on high ; as the last peal of the thunder of " heaven, such is the noise of battle." — " As roll a thou" sand waves to the rock,... | |
 | 1807 - 536 pagina’s
...Lochlin rise round my sword. " Be as a rock on the shore, " In my native land of woods, 410 " fPhich raises the pine on high " To contend with the storms...Such is the din of war ! 430 Though Cormac's hundred hards were there, To give the fight to song ; Feeble was the voice of a hundred bards, To send the... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1807 - 534 pagina’s
...fall like fparks. of VOL. I. A a " flame " flame that gild the ftormy fate of night. As the " noife of the troubled ocean when roll the waves " on high, as the laft peal of thundering heaven, " fuch is the noife of battle. Though Cormac's f hundred bards were... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pagina’s
...steel. Helmets are cleft on high : blood bursts, and smokes " around. As the troubled noise of the ocean when roll the "• waves on high ; as the last peal of the thunder of heaven ; " such is the noise of batde. The groan of the people spread *' over the hills.... | |
 | 1810 - 378 pagina’s
...yews. Darts rush along the sky. Spears fall like the eireles 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, sueh is the din of war ! Though Cormae's hundred bards were there to give the fight to song; feeble... | |
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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... 
