Ancient Irish MinstrelsyHodges and Smith, 1852 - 292 páginas |
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Página ix
... replies , " Yea truely , I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me , that I might understand them , and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention , but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they ...
... replies , " Yea truely , I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me , that I might understand them , and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention , but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they ...
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... replies that he prefers his psalms to the tales of the Bard , and this provokes Ossian to a rude and angry comparison . Patrick mollifies him by a complimentary answer , and requests him to repeat one of his Fenian tales . Ossian then ...
... replies that he prefers his psalms to the tales of the Bard , and this provokes Ossian to a rude and angry comparison . Patrick mollifies him by a complimentary answer , and requests him to repeat one of his Fenian tales . Ossian then ...
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... replies that she is the daughter of a king whose dominion lies beneath the waves - that she is a refugee come to claim protection from the Fenians , against the prince of Sora , who would force her to be his bride . Finn , with his ...
... replies that she is the daughter of a king whose dominion lies beneath the waves - that she is a refugee come to claim protection from the Fenians , against the prince of Sora , who would force her to be his bride . Finn , with his ...
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... replies in a style more indignant , and after reciting a number of the glorious exploits of the Fenians , asks by what achievements of his Deity they can be matched . The saint , justly shocked by such daring , accuses him of frenzy ...
... replies in a style more indignant , and after reciting a number of the glorious exploits of the Fenians , asks by what achievements of his Deity they can be matched . The saint , justly shocked by such daring , accuses him of frenzy ...
Página 85
... replies that neither of the opposing parties could boast of a great triumph . He then proceeds to enumerate the forces and principal leaders of both armies , viz . , the Fenians from Binn - Eadair ( Howth ) ; from Alba ( Scotland ) ...
... replies that neither of the opposing parties could boast of a great triumph . He then proceeds to enumerate the forces and principal leaders of both armies , viz . , the Fenians from Binn - Eadair ( Howth ) ; from Alba ( Scotland ) ...
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Almhuin's ancient arms array bards Barron's Magazine beauty behold beneath blade blood boar boast bold brave breast Cairbre Caoilte champion chase chieftain Clanna combat Conan conflict Conloch Conn Connal Cormac cried crimson Cuchullin Cumhall Dargo daring dart death deeds deer Dublin E'en e'er Erin Erin's fair fame fear fell Fenian chiefs Fenian host Fergus fierce fight Fingal Finn Finn's fought Fuath Gaelic gallant Garray Gaul glaive glorious glory gold grief hand head heart heroes hill honour hounds hundred Iliad Illan Innisfail Ireland James Hardiman king king of Munster Lochlin's loud Macpherson Magnus maid Meargach meet Miss Brooke monarch Morni's ne'er night noble o'er Oscar Osgar Ossian Patrick poem pride prince proud rage renowned replies round Royal Irish Academy shield slain song sons spear stood strife strong sweet sword Talc tale Tara Tara's tell thee thou translation valour vengeance victory warriors ween wounds youth
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Página 235 - To move away the ringlet curl From the lovely lady's cheek— There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Página 42 - Such were the words of the bards in the days of song; when the king heard the music of harps, the tales of other times! The chiefs gathered from all their hills, and heard the lovely sound. They praised the voice of Cona!
Página 34 - No wonder, such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms! What winning graces! what majestic mien! She moves a Goddess, and she looks a Queen. Yet hence, oh Heav'n! convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan race.
Página 225 - They closed full fast on every side, No slackness there was found ; And many a gallant gentleman Lay gasping on the ground.
Página 57 - Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds listed, On Circe's island fell. (Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a grovelling swine...
Página ix - Yea, truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them ; and surely they were favoured of sweet wit, and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them...
Página 25 - Seven sacred tripods, whose unsullied frame Yet knows no office, nor has felt the flame; Twelve steeds unmatch'd in fleetness and in force, And still victorious in the dusty course; (Rich were the man, whose ample stores exceed...
Página 133 - They fling their weapons down. Each rushes to his hero's grasp : Their sinewy arms bend round each other : they turn from side to side, and strain and stretch their large spreading limbs below. But when the pride of their strength arose, they shook the hill with their heels. Rocks tumble from their places on high ; the green-headed bushes are overturned.
Página 241 - but feeble was the foe !" We fought, nor weak the strife of death ! He sunk beneath my sword. We laid them in two tombs of stone ; the hapless lovers of youth ! Such have I been in my youth, O Oscar ! be thou like the age of Fingal. Never search thou for battle ; nor shun it when it comes.
Página xxvi - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot; Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost; Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung.