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Book I.
An epic poem.
19
The hero ftruck the ftiield of his alarms — the warriors of the
night moved on. The reft lay in the heath of the deer, and flept
amidft the dufky wind. The ghofts * of the lately dead were
near, and fwam on gloomy clouds. And far diftant, in the dark
iilence of Lena, the feeble voices of death were heard.
* It was long the opinion of the ancient furrounds twice or thrice the place deftined
Scots, that a ghoft was heard ftiriclcing for the perfon to die ; and then goes along
near the place where a death was to hap- the road through which the funeral is to
pen foon after. The accounts given, to pafs, flirieking at intervals ; at laft, the
this day, among the vulgar, of this extraor- meteor and ghoft difappear above the burial
dinary matter, are very poetical. The place,
ghoft comes mounted on a meteor, and
D 2
FIN GAL,
An epic poem.
19
The hero ftruck the ftiield of his alarms — the warriors of the
night moved on. The reft lay in the heath of the deer, and flept
amidft the dufky wind. The ghofts * of the lately dead were
near, and fwam on gloomy clouds. And far diftant, in the dark
iilence of Lena, the feeble voices of death were heard.
* It was long the opinion of the ancient furrounds twice or thrice the place deftined
Scots, that a ghoft was heard ftiriclcing for the perfon to die ; and then goes along
near the place where a death was to hap- the road through which the funeral is to
pen foon after. The accounts given, to pafs, flirieking at intervals ; at laft, the
this day, among the vulgar, of this extraor- meteor and ghoft difappear above the burial
dinary matter, are very poetical. The place,
ghoft comes mounted on a meteor, and
D 2
FIN GAL,
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| Description | "... an ancient epic poem in six books together with several other poems composed by Ossian the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language by James Macpherson". (Imperfect: wanting advertisement leaf preceding p. 1 and final advertisement leaf.) (There is another copy at Shelf mark: Oss.3(1), DOD ID 77433523.) |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.4 |
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| Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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