 Lano; when it moves on the plains of autumn, bearing the death of thousands along. Morna ! fairest of maids ! calm is thy sleep in the cave of the rock! Thou hast fallen in darkness, like a star, that shoots across the desert; when the traveller is alone,...  George Mogridge: His Life, Character, and Writings - Page 89by Charles Williams - 1856 - 370 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bards and bardism - 1765 - 416 pages
...extent of the grave. Thcfe are the four Hones alluded to here, ; • Lochlin, • Lochlin, ftriving in the battle of heroes? Or what confines the chiefs of Cromla to the dark and narrow houfe ? ? CATHBAT, replied the hero, fell by the fword of Duchomar at the oak of the noify ftreams.... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 390 pages
...the marshy Lano; when it moves on the plains of autumn, bearing the death of thousands along. Morna ! fairest of maids ! calm is thy sleep in the cave of...traveller is alone, and mourns the transient beam!" * Dubhchomar, a black well-made man. -l- Fear-guth, the man of the word ; or a commander of an army.... | |
 | 1803 - 388 pages
...it moves on the plains of autumn, bearing the death of thousands along. Morna ! fairest of maids I calm is thy sleep in the cave of the rock ! Thou hast...traveller is alone, and mourns the transient beam!" * Dubhchomar, a blutk aiell~ma.de man. f Fear-guth, the man of the word ; or a commander of an army.... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1803 - 386 pages
...stones placed on end to murk the extent of the grave. These are the four stones alluded to here. " Say," said Semo's blue-eyed son, " say how fell the chiefs of Erin ? Fell they by the sons of Lochliri, striving in the battle of heroes ? Or what confines the strong in arms to the dark and narrow... | |
 | James Macpherson - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1805 - 336 pages
...marshy Lano ; when it moves on the plains of autumn, ^bearing the death of thousands along. Morna ! fairest of maids ! calm is thy sleep in the cave of...fell the chiefs of Erin ? Fell they by the sons of t This passage alludes to the manner cf burial among the ancient Scots, They opened a grave six or... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...Be thou like a roc, or a young hart in the mountains of tkf/icr." Song of Solomon, ii. 8. 17. Moma ! fairest of maids ! calm is thy sleep in the cave of...fallen in darkness, like a star, that shoots across the desart *7 ; when the traveller is alone, and mourns the transient beam !" " Say," said Seine's blue-eyed... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...of the marshy Lano, when it sails over the plains of autumn, and brings death to the people. Morna, fairest of maids ! calm is thy sleep in the cave of the rock. Thou hast fallen in darkness like a t Duhheomar, 'a black well-shaped man.' K Fear -gut h. ' the man of the word i" or a commander of an... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 364 pages
...the marshy Lano; when it moves on the plains of autumn, bearing the death of thousands along. Morna ! fairest of maids ! calm is thy sleep in the cave of...striving in the battle of heroes ? Or what confines the strong in arms to the dark and narrow house?" " Cathba," replied the hero, " fell by the sword of Duchomar... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...190 " When it moves on the plains of autumn, . . " Bearing the death of thousands along. " Morna ! fairest of maids ! " Calm is thy sleep in the cave...! ' *' Thou hast fallen in darkness, like a star, 195 " That shoots across the desart ; " When the traveller is alone, " And mourns the transient beam... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 402 pages
...grave. These are the four stones alluded to here. autumn, bearing the death of thousands along. Morna ! fairest of maids ! calm is thy sleep in the cave of...striving in the battle of heroes? Or what confines the strong in arms to the dark and narrow house?" " Cathba," replied the hero, " fell by the sword of Duch6mar,... | |
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