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Page 41
... 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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... but as conversing with him familiarly , and recurring with conscious pride and pleasure , though mingled with feelings of deep regret , to that happy period of his life when he was the hero as well as the bard of his country .
... but as conversing with him familiarly , and recurring with conscious pride and pleasure , though mingled with feelings of deep regret , to that happy period of his life when he was the hero as well as the bard of his country .
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We do not seem to read a narra- tion of events , wherein the writer was neither a witness nor a party : -it is the son — the father— the hero - the patriot who speaks ; who breathes his own passions and feelings on our hearts ...
We do not seem to read a narra- tion of events , wherein the writer was neither a witness nor a party : -it is the son — the father— the hero - the patriot who speaks ; who breathes his own passions and feelings on our hearts ...
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The chase , which singly o'er the plain , The hero's steps pursued ; Nor one of all his valiant train Its wond'rous progress view'd ? A query to which the holy anchorite replies , O royal bard ! to valour dear , Whom fame and wisdom ...
The chase , which singly o'er the plain , The hero's steps pursued ; Nor one of all his valiant train Its wond'rous progress view'd ? A query to which the holy anchorite replies , O royal bard ! to valour dear , Whom fame and wisdom ...
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Not thy own clerks , whose holy feet The sacred pavement trod , With thee to hymn , in concert sweet , The praises of thy God ; Not thy own clerks in truth excell'd The heroes of our line , By honour train'd , by fame impell'd In ...
Not thy own clerks , whose holy feet The sacred pavement trod , With thee to hymn , in concert sweet , The praises of thy God ; Not thy own clerks in truth excell'd The heroes of our line , By honour train'd , by fame impell'd In ...
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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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