Ossian Collection > Temora, an ancient epic poem, in eight books

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T E M O R A:
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'H O Is that, at bluB-nflirearrling Lubar; by the bending
hill of the' rdes,?' ' Tallj he leans on an oak' torn froiii
high, by nightly winds.— ^Who biit Comhal's' fon^ brightening^ in
the laft of his fields ? Hi's grey hair is on the breeze : he half un-
flieaths the fwo#d of Luno. His eyes are turned to Moi-Iena, to
* This fudden apoftrophe, concerning and the effect which both have on die mind
Eingal, the attitude of the king, and the ofFingal, are well imagined. — His fpeech
fcenery in which he is placed, tend to upon the occafion is very beautiful in the
elevate the mind to a iuft conception of original. Broken and unequal, the nam-
the fucceedin^ battle. The fpeech of Fin- bers reprefent the agitation of his mind,
gal is^fuil of that magnanirnous generofity divided betwepi the admiration excited by
which (Jiftinguiflies his character through- the filence of Gaul, (when others boafted
out. The groupe of figures, which the of their own ailions) and his natural af-
poet places around his father, are pidii- feiftion for Filian, whicb the behaviour of
refque, and defcribed with great propriety, that valiant youth had raifed to the high-
TJie filence of Gaul, the behaviour of Fiilan, eft pitch.
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