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MR. MCPHERSON'S POETRY. 161
The broken skull and shiver'd helmet strow'd,
The sandy plain that reeks with human blood ;
He gasping falls, and shakes the thund'ring ground,
And dying, toss'd his quiv'ring limbs around.' —
Thus falls an -oak that long majestic stood
The tallest honours of the waving wood.
Deep-hack'd by the ship-wright's unerring hand,
Groans, slow-inclines, and fulling, shakes the land.
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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, appointed to inquire into the nature and authenticity of the poems of Ossian
DescriptionDrawn up, according to the directions of the Committee, by Henry Mackenzie ... ; with a copious appendix, containing some of the principal documents on which the report is founded.
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Ossian Collection
DescriptionSelected 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.
Early Gaelic Book Collections
DescriptionSelected 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.