“Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters, from the mossy rock, saw ye the blue-eyed fair?”
James Macpherson Temora
Temora, Book VI, p. 353
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“Hail, Carril of other times! Thy voice is like the harp in the halls of Tura.”
Book V
The Poems of Ossian, Fingal, an ancient Epic Poem
“Can I forget that beam of light, the white-handed daughter of kings?”
"Cath-Loda", Duan I
The Poems of Ossian
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles McPherson, February 25, 1773, cited from H. A. Washington (ed.) The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Washington, D.C.: Taylor & Maury, 1853) vol. 1, pp. 195-6.
Criticism
“Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.”
Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell Life of Johnson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) p. 1207.
Criticism
“Sorrow, like a cloud on the sun, shades the soul of Clessammor.”
"Carthon"
The Poems of Ossian
“The gloom of the battle roared.”
Book III
The Poems of Ossian, Fingal, an ancient Epic Poem
"Cath-Loda", Duan III
The Poems of Ossian
William Wordsworth, "Essay Supplementary to the Preface" http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?textsid=35963 in Poems by William Wordsworth, Vol. I (1815), pp. 363–365. <br class="br">Criticism
“The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul.”
"The Death of Cuthullin"
The Poems of Ossian
Book III
The Poems of Ossian, Fingal, an ancient Epic Poem
“I look down from my height on nations
And they become ashes before me.”
"Carric", quoted in Thoreau, "Life Without Principle"
The Poems of Ossian
"Carric-thura", p. 147
The Poems of Ossian
“We may boldly assign him [Ossian] a place among those, whose works are to last for ages.”
Hugh Blair, A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian (1763), p. 75.
Criticism
James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785), p. 490.
Criticism
“Whither hast thou fled, O wind?”
said the king of Morven. "Dost thou rustle in the chambers of the south? pursuest thou the shower in other lands? Why dost thou not come to my sails? to the blue face of my seas?"
"Lathmon"
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