 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 274 pages
...delights to shine on the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around. O thou tjiat rolleft above (i) , round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams , O fun ! thy everlafting light ? Thoucomeft forth in thy awful beauty , and the ftars hide themfelvesin... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 216 pages
...my rest. The beam of Heaven delights to shine on the grave of Carthon ; I feel it warm around. — ' O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of...everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky : The moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave, but... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1803 - 350 pages
...feeble voice ! The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around ! O thou that rollest above, round as -the shield of...light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 308 pages
...(' rest. The beam of heaven delights to shine on the " grave of Carlhon ; I feel it warm around. " O thou that rollest above, round as the shield " of my fathers ! whence are thy beams, O Sun t " thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth in thy >; awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...exercises at the Divinity hall. The beginning is derived from Satan's address to the sun in Milton. " 0 thou that " rollest above, round as the shield of...light ? Thou " comest forth in thy awful beauty ! the stars hide them" selves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the " western wave ; but thou... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Darnley murder - 1804 - 556 pages
...exercises at the Divinity halL The beginning is derived from Satan's address to the sun in Milton. " O tbou that " rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers,...light ? Thou " comest forth in thy awful beauty ! the stars bide tkem" selves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the " western wave ; but thou... | |
 | James Macpherson, Archibald M'Donald - 1805 - 308 pages
...not an " ingredient introduced by Macpherson.* We " find, * His translation of the above passage. " O thou that " rollest above, round as the shield of...light ? Thou comest forth " in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; " the moon, cold, and pale, sinks in the western wave. But " thou... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 pages
...feeble voice. The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Catthon : I feel it warm around. O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of...everlasting light ? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty, and the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... | |
 | James Macpherson - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1805 - 336 pages
...feeble voice! The beam of heaven delights to shine on the grave of Carthon : I feel it warm around ! O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun f thy everlasting light ? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...similar to Satan's address to the sun, in the fourth book of Paradise Lost. MACPHERSON, 1st edit. " О thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, О sun ! thy everlasting light ? Thou earnest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves... | |
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O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou... 
