 | Archibald Clerk - 1870 - 590 pages
...0 Oscar ! bend the strong in arm, but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many tides against the foes of thy people ; but like the gale that moves the grass to those who ask tliine aid. So Trenmor lived ; such Trathal was, and such has Fingal been. My... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1900 - 490 pages
...Oscar ! bend the strong in arms, but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many tides against the foes of thy people, but like the gale that moves the grass to those who ask thine aid. So Trenmor lived ; such Trathal was ; and such has Fingal been. My... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 812 pages
...O Oscar! bend the strong in arm; but spare the feeble hand. Be thou a stream of many tides against the foes of thy people; but like the gale that moves the grass to those who ask thine aid. — So Trenmor lived; such Trathal was; and such has Fingal been.... | |
 | Dafydd Moore - 2004 - 612 pages
...youth, and are the fong of bards. O OSCAR ! bend the ftrong in arm : but fpare the feeble hand. Be thou a ftream of many tides againft the foes of thy people ; but * Here the poet celebrates his own ac- fuggefts to him the helplefs fituation of his tions, but he... | |
 | 1802 - 1084 pages
...thefenfe of the original, at times. Taie an inftance of the two lall affolions: Fingal, В. III. " Be thou »ftream of many tides againft the foes of thy people,...but like the gale that moves the grafs to thofe who li thine aid." The more literal tnallation of this paifage is,"Be thou UK the furge of a winter fpring-tide... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1762 - 574 pages
...following beautiful apoftrophe. " O Ofcar ! bend the ftrong in arm, but fpare the feeble hand. Be thou a ftream of many tides againft the foes of thy people, but like the gale thai moves the graft to thofe who afk thine aid. So Trenmoi lived; fuch Trathal was; and fuch has Fingal... | |
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bend the ftrong in arm, but fpare the feeble hand. Be thou a " ftream of many tides againft the foes of thy people, but like the " gale that moves the grafs to thofe who afk thy aid. 
