| 1803 - 352 pages
...Steel clanging, sounded on "steel. Helmets are cleft on high; blood bursts and " smoaks around.—As the troubled noise of the " ocean, when roll the waves...peal of the thunder of heaven, such is the noise of " battle."—" As roll a thousand waves to the rock, " so Swaran's host came on ; as meets a rock a... | |
| 1803 - 350 pages
...and roar on the plain ; " loud, rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin " and Inisfail. Chief mixed his strokes with chief, " and man with man. Steel...steel. Helmets are cleft on high; blood bursts and • " snioaks around. — As the troubled noise of the " ocean, when roll the waves on high ; as the... | |
| James Macpherson - 1803 - 386 pages
...Lochlin and Inis-fail. Chief mixes his strokes with chief, and man with man ; steel, clanging, sounds on 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,... | |
| Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - 1805 - 532 pages
...did 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... | |
| Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - 1805 - 526 pages
...did 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 in heaven, such is the din of xvar ! Though Cormac's hundred bards were there, to give the... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...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 5°, such is the din of war ! Though Cormac's hundred bards were 49 Blood bursts... | |
| Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...and roar on the " plain ; loud, rough, and dark in battle, meet Lochlin " and Inisfail. Chief mixed his strokes with chief, and " man with man. Steel...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... | |
| Ossian - 1806 - 364 pages
...Lochlin and Innis-rail. Chief mixes his strokes with chief, and man with man; steel, clanging, sounds on 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,... | |
| Sir John Sinclair - 1806 - 254 pages
...polished yew ; Darts rushed along the sky ; 425 MACPHERSON'S TRANSLATION. As the noise of the troubled ocean, When roll the waves on high. As the last peal of thunder in heaven, Such is the din of war ! 430 Though Cormac's hundred hards were there, To give the... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pages
...and roar on the plain ; loud, rough, and dark, in " battle, met Lochlin and Inisfail : chief mixed his strokes '' with chief, and man with man. Steel...of the thunder of heaven ; " such is the noise of batde. The groan of the people spread *' over the hills. It was like the thunder of night, when 4'... | |
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