 I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me : but thy death came like a blast from the desert, and laid my green head low : the spring returned with its showers, but no leaf of mine arose.  The Poems of Ossian - Sivu 1821803Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 464 sivua
...Anc. Chiv. Oscar, is exquisitely tender. " I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar ! with all m$ branches round me. But, thy death came, like a blast from the desart, and laid my green head low. The spring returned with its showers » but, no leaf of mine arose,"... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 sivua
...my tears descend with the drops of night 7. I was a lovely tree, in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me; but thy death came like a blast from the desert, and laid my green head low 8. The spring rcbrenst, preserves the original, to which the translator was afraid to adhere in English.... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 262 sivua
...cannot forbear giving it a place also. " I " was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar ! with all " my branches round me. But thy death came like a " blast from the desart, and laid my green head low. " The spring returned with its showers ; but no leaf " of mine... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 sivua
...my tears descend with the drops of night. I was a lovely tree, in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me ; but thy death came like a blast...green head low. The spring returned with its showers ; no leaf of mine arose ! The virgins saw me silent in the hall ; they touched the harp of joy. The... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1812 - 486 sivua
...lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me ; but thy death came like a blast of the desert, and laid my green head low. The spring returned with its showers, but of me not a leaf sprung *." The written paper alluded to ran as follows : OLIVIA TO HER FATHER. A SHORT... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1848 - 494 sivua
...Cresseide.' Troilus and Cresseide, Book iv. * ' I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me, but thy death came like a blast from the desert, and laid my green bead low : the spring returned with its showers ; no leaf of mine arose. '---Croma. « Thus in Shakspere... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 sivua
...: my tears descend with the drops of night- I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me : but thy death came like a blast...returned with its showers, but no leaf of mine arose. Fingal. I am aware that the term metaphor has been used in a more extensive sense than I give it; but... | |
 | 1816 - 832 sivua
...passage of Malvina's lamentation lor Oscar: — ' I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches - round me; but thy death came like a blast from the desert, and laid my green bead low; tba spring returned with its showers, but no green leaf of mine arose." Again, where old... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 sivua
...spring; in war, the mountain-storm. Take now my hand in friendship, thqu noble king of Morven. Fingal. my green head low: the spring returned with its showers, but no leaf of mine arose. Fingal. I am aware that the term metaphor has been used in a more extensive sense than I give it ;... | |
 | 1823 - 626 sivua
...is inconsolable for the death of Oscar: — "I was a lovely tree in thy presence, Oscar, with all my branches round me; but thy death came, like a blast...low ; the spring returned, with its showers, but no green leaf of mine arose." In a play of Deckar's, top, where Orlando is asked by Hippolito if he had... | |
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