 If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana; If on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes were two stars of light. Her face was heaven's bow in showers. Her dark hair flowed round it, like the streaming...  The Poems of Ossian - Pàgina 191per Hugh Campbell - 1822 - 700 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1783 - 282 pàgines
...Strina-dona! If on the heath she moved, her breaft was whiter than the down of Cana (i) ; if on the fea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes were two ftars of light; hei face was heaven's bow in showers ; her dark hair flowed round it, like the frreaming... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - 1804 - 556 pàgines
...embroils the night." — " If on the '' heath shb moved, her breast was whiter than the dovrn " of Canai if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the " rolling...in showers ; her dark hair flowed " round it like streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller " of souls, white-handed Strinadona." i. 24. " Grace was in... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - 1804 - 558 pàgines
...songs." The next passage, " if on the heath she moved, " her breast was whiter than the down of Cana ; if on the " sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean," exhibits the peculiar construction of Tibullus. Sen sol-vit criucs fusis decet, esse capillis ; seu... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pàgines
...high-bosomed Strina-dona '. If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana» ; if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling...white-handed Strinadona ! Col-gorm came in his ship, and Coreul-suran, king of shells. The brnthers came from I thorno, to woo the sun-beam of Tormoth's isle.... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pàgines
...was also known to Ossian. * If on the heath she moved, her breast teas whiter than the down of Cana ; if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling...ocean. Her eyes were two stars of light. Her face axw heaven's bo'e in showers. Her dark hair flowed around it, like streaming clouds. Thou wert the... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 pàgines
...was also known to Ossian. s If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana ; if on the sea-beat shore, than -the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes uxre two stars of light. Her face was heaven's boio in showers. Her dark hair flowed around it, like... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pàgines
...high bosomed Strina-dona ! If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana;* if on the seabeat shore, than the foam of the rolling...light. Her face was heaven's bow in showers. Her dark bair flowed round it, like the streaming clouds. Thou wert the dweller of souls white-handed Strina-dona!... | |
 | Patrick Graham - 1807 - 512 pàgines
...adorned locks : she in" flames, whether she is in white, or in " purple," is the original of Ossian's " If " on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of " the rolling ocean." In these alleged imitations, I can discern nothing common, except the particle seu, in the Latin, and... | |
 | Jane Porter - 1810 - 382 pàgines
...her memory could dictate. " If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana; If on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling...wert the dweller of souls, white-handed Strinadona!" Wallace rose from his chair, which she had placed near her. She had designed that these tender words... | |
 | 1821 - 284 pàgines
...the soft lustre of soul ; Dark glances adorning The flashes of fire from her eye-balls that roll ; 1 Her eyes were two stars of light. Her face was heaven's bow in showers. Her dark hair flowed around it like the streaming clouds. — Cnth-Loda. Her soul was like a stream of light. — Colna-Dona.... | |
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