Ossian Collection > Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal > Volumes 3 and 4

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T E M O R A:
AN
EPIC POEM.
BOOK THIRD.
'^) W/ ho is that, at blue - ftreaming Lubar;
* ' by the bending hill of the roes?
Tall^ he leans on an oak torn from high, "by
niglit-
*) This fudden apoftrophe , concerning Fingal , the
attitude of the king , and the fcenery in which
he Is placed i tend to elevate the'mmd to a juil
conception of the fucceeding battle. The fpeech
of Fingal is full of that inaguanimous generofity,
which diltinguifhes his charnfter' throughout. The
groupe of figures i which xhe poet places around
his father, are pifturefque , and defcribed with
great propriety. The fiieuce ofilGaul, the beha-
viour of Fillan, and the eife(^ which both have
on the anind of Fingal , are well imagiuedf
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