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The multitude who accompanied Burns to the grave went step by step with the chief mourners ; they might amount to ten or twelve thousand . Not a word was heard ; and though all could not be near , and many could not see , when the earth ...
The multitude who accompanied Burns to the grave went step by step with the chief mourners ; they might amount to ten or twelve thousand . Not a word was heard ; and though all could not be near , and many could not see , when the earth ...
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In these expeditions he was accompanied by his son and chief bard , Ossian , and also by a native Irish bard of the name of Ullin . It does not appear that Fingal had occasion to penetrate into the interior , or perhaps more than twenty ...
In these expeditions he was accompanied by his son and chief bard , Ossian , and also by a native Irish bard of the name of Ullin . It does not appear that Fingal had occasion to penetrate into the interior , or perhaps more than twenty ...
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Of all thy church's walls contain Within their hallow'd round , Not one more faithful didst thou know Than Comhal's noble son ; The chief who gloried to bestow The prize the bards had won ! Were Morni's * valiant son alive , ( Now in ...
Of all thy church's walls contain Within their hallow'd round , Not one more faithful didst thou know Than Comhal's noble son ; The chief who gloried to bestow The prize the bards had won ! Were Morni's * valiant son alive , ( Now in ...
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If Fergus + lived , again to sing As erst , the Fennii's fame ; Or Daire , who sweetly touch'd the string , And thrill'd the feeling frame ; to the character and valour of a chief , who was not allied to his family , and whose tribe had ...
If Fergus + lived , again to sing As erst , the Fennii's fame ; Or Daire , who sweetly touch'd the string , And thrill'd the feeling frame ; to the character and valour of a chief , who was not allied to his family , and whose tribe had ...
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... to repress cherished pride of the hero and the minstrel , and who exhibits , whilst making the attempt , sentiments of peculiar sublimity and beauty : Cease thy vain thoughts , and fruitless boasts ; Can death thy chiefs restore ?
... to repress cherished pride of the hero and the minstrel , and who exhibits , whilst making the attempt , sentiments of peculiar sublimity and beauty : Cease thy vain thoughts , and fruitless boasts ; Can death thy chiefs restore ?
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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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