| English literature - 1763 - 784 pages
...back. The filence of the king is terrible. Night came down on the fea ; Rotha'^ bay received the (hip. A rock bends along the coaft with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle * of Loda, and the molly (tone of power. A narrow plain fpreads beneath, covered with grafs and aged trees, which... | |
| Poetry - 1773 - 466 pages
...Offian furely is pardonable for making his hero fuperior to the god of a foreign territory *, NOTWITH* The fcene of this encounter of Fingal with the fpirit of Loda is laid in Inidorc, or the iflands of Orkney ; and in the defcription of Fingal's landing there, it is faid, "... | |
| Celts - 1784 - 432 pages
...is terrible! NIGHT came down on the fea; Rotha's bay received the fhip. A rock bends along the coafb with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle * of Loda, the mofiy ftone of power! A narrow plain fpreads beneath, covered with grafs and aged trees, which... | |
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1790 - 322 pages
...back. The filence of the king is terrible ! Night came down on the fea ; Rotha's bay received the fhip. A rock bends along the coaft with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle * of Loda, the mofly ftone of power ! A narrow plain Fpreads beneath, covered with grafs and aged trees, -which... | |
| Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...The filence of the king is terrible ! Night came down on the fea ; Rotha's bay received the fhi p. A rock bends along the coaft with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle * of Loda, the mofly flone of power ! A narrow plain fpreads beneath, covered with grafs and aged trees, which... | |
| James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1792 - 394 pages
...around it, is thus described in the poem of Ca-ricthura : " A rock bends along the coast," says Ofsian, "with all its echoing wood; on the top is the circle of Loda, and the mofsy stono of power ; a narrow plain bends beneath, and the blue course of the stream- is... | |
| James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1792 - 386 pages
...around it, is thus described in the poem of Czrictbura : " A rock bends along_ the coast," says Ofsian, "with all its echoing wood ^ on the top is the circle of Loda, and the mofsy stone of power ; a narrow plain bends beneath, and the blue course of the stream is there."... | |
| 1799 - 252 pages
...back. TheClence of the king is terrible. Night came down on the fea: Rotha's bay received thefliip. A rock bends along the coaft with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle f of Loda, and the raofiy ftone of power. A narrow plain fpreads beneath, covered with grafs and aged... | |
| 1801 - 326 pages
...back. The filence of the king is terrible ! Night came down on the Tea ; Rotha's bay received the Chip. A rock bends along the coaft with all its echoing wood. On the top is the circle (4>1) of Loda, the moffy Rone of power ! A narrow plain fpreads beneath , covered with gr'afs and aged... | |
| James Macpherson - 1801 - 348 pages
...Orkney; and in the defcriptiou of Fingal's landing there, it is laid, "A rock bends "along the co.ift with all its echoing "wood. On the top is the circle of "Loda, with the moiTy ftone of power." In confirmation of Offian's topography, it is proper to acquaint the reader... | |
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