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Truth obliges me to add that he was not fastidious about his dress ; and that an officer , curious in the personal appearance and equipments of his company , might have ques- tioned the military nicety of the poet's clothes and arms .
Truth obliges me to add that he was not fastidious about his dress ; and that an officer , curious in the personal appearance and equipments of his company , might have ques- tioned the military nicety of the poet's clothes and arms .
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... He little thinks the mossy stones Beneath his feet Afford some hero's hallow'd bones Their cold retreat ; - Perhaps e'en there on Fingal's arm A thousand heroes hung , While Ossian , music of the storm , The battle anthem sung : Or ...
... He little thinks the mossy stones Beneath his feet Afford some hero's hallow'd bones Their cold retreat ; - Perhaps e'en there on Fingal's arm A thousand heroes hung , While Ossian , music of the storm , The battle anthem sung : Or ...
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No sword this wither'd hand can wield , No spear my arm employs . Among thy clerks , my last sad hour Its weary scene prolongs ; And psalms must now supply the pow'r Of victory's lofty songs . It is nevertheless to the opening of The ...
No sword this wither'd hand can wield , No spear my arm employs . Among thy clerks , my last sad hour Its weary scene prolongs ; And psalms must now supply the pow'r Of victory's lofty songs . It is nevertheless to the opening of The ...
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... Mac - Garra , conquest's boast , Whose valour would a war decide , His single arm an host . Or could Mac - Ronan now appear , In all his manly charms ; Or , -Oh my Osgar * ! wert thou here , To fill my aged arms !
... Mac - Garra , conquest's boast , Whose valour would a war decide , His single arm an host . Or could Mac - Ronan now appear , In all his manly charms ; Or , -Oh my Osgar * ! wert thou here , To fill my aged arms !
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This recollection of his departed friends and com- patriots in arms is , if we except a few modern allusions , precisely in the spirit of almost innumer- able passages in the Scottish Ossian , and blended too with the same sense of ...
This recollection of his departed friends and com- patriots in arms is , if we except a few modern allusions , precisely in the spirit of almost innumer- able passages in the Scottish Ossian , and blended too with the same sense of ...
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| Title | Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2 Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Nathan Drake |
| Author | Nathan Drake |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
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