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“ Canace , condemned to death by Colus her father , sends to her guilty brother Macareus the last testimony of her unhappy passion : “ Out of her swoonè when she did abbraide , Knowing no mean but death in her distresse , To her brother ...
“ Canace , condemned to death by Colus her father , sends to her guilty brother Macareus the last testimony of her unhappy passion : “ Out of her swoonè when she did abbraide , Knowing no mean but death in her distresse , To her brother ...
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I was then a child , but his looks and his voice cannot well be forgotten ; and while I write this I behold him as distinctly as I did when I stood at my father's knee , and heard the bard repeat his Tam O'Shanter .
I was then a child , but his looks and his voice cannot well be forgotten ; and while I write this I behold him as distinctly as I did when I stood at my father's knee , and heard the bard repeat his Tam O'Shanter .
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The delineation , indeed , either of Ossian or his royal father , being precisely such as we find drawn in the poems translated by Macpherson , would answer the which I have in view ; but as the character of the bard is , from the ...
The delineation , indeed , either of Ossian or his royal father , being precisely such as we find drawn in the poems translated by Macpherson , would answer the which I have in view ; but as the character of the bard is , from the ...
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Did e'er my tale thy curious ear And fond attention draw , The story of that chase to hear , Which my famed father saw ? The chase , which singly o'er the plain , The hero's steps pursued ; Nor one of all his valiant train Its wond'rous ...
Did e'er my tale thy curious ear And fond attention draw , The story of that chase to hear , Which my famed father saw ? The chase , which singly o'er the plain , The hero's steps pursued ; Nor one of all his valiant train Its wond'rous ...
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Though ( with thy will perverse at strife ) , Thou deem'st it strange to say , - He gave thy mighty father life , And took that life away . The allusion of the last two lines of this striking address brings to the memory of the bard ...
Though ( with thy will perverse at strife ) , Thou deem'st it strange to say , - He gave thy mighty father life , And took that life away . The allusion of the last two lines of this striking address brings to the memory of the bard ...
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Page 319 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
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