 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 Scottish Chiefs - Page 142by Jane Porter - 1857 - 507 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...stately huntress of Tormoth wild. But thou lookest careless from thy steps, 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 ocean. Her eyes were two stars of light.... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
..." loveliness " was around her as light, her steps were the music of '< 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... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Darnley murder - 1804 - 556 pages
...in " loveliness " was around her as lights her steps were the music of " songs." The next passage, " 'if on the heath she moved, " her breast was whiter than the down of Caua ; if on the " sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean," exhibits the peculiar construction... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...cotton-grass, a plant very much resembling } cotton ; by which name it 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.... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...stately huntress of Tormnth wild. But thou lookest careless from thy steps, 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 ocean. Her eyes were two stars of light ;... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...stately huntress of Tormoth wild. But tliou lookest careless from thy steps, 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 ocean. Her eyes were two stars of light. Her... | |
 | Patrick Graham - Ogham stones - 1807 - 512 pages
...looses her hair, it becomes her to have " flowing locks," has furnished the original of Ossian's " If on the heath she moved, " her breast was whiter than the snow of " Cana." Or, when again he maintains, that Tibullus' " Seu comprit, contptis est veneranda... | |
 | Jane Porter - Scotland - 1810 - 382 pages
...attract Wallace to think on her, and to bind him to the castle. She took up one of the lutes which, with other musical instruments, decorated the apartments...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... | |
 | Hugh Campbell - Celts - 1822 - 416 pages
...stately huntress of Tormoth, wild. But thou lookest careless from thy steps, high-bosomed Striua-dona ! If on the heath she moved, her breast was whiter than the down of Cairn ;* if on the sea-beat shore, than the foam of the rolling ocean. Her eyes were two stars of light.... | |
 | Jane Porter - Scotland - 1827 - 282 pages
...attract Wallace to think on her, and to bind him fa the castle. She took up one of the lutes which, with other musical instruments, decorated the apartments...breathed the most pathetic air her memory could dictate. " Jf on the heath the mov'd, her breast was whiter than the down of Cana ; If on the sea-beat shore,... | |
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