...this office for * Fillan, as it was in the cause of the family of Conar that that hero was killed. night, the dismal sign of war. Ghosts fled on every...the bards, untouched, sound mournful over the hill. He struck again the shield ; battles rose in the dreams of his host. The wide-tumbling strife is gleaming...

...alluded to by Ossian: "The King took his deathful spear, and struck the deeply sounding shield,— his shield that hung high in night, the dismal sign of war."— TEMORA, B. VII. They quickly to Helge the tidings bear, Who answers, cheerless: "King Ring is mighty,...

...the effect produced by the sound was extraordinary. The first sound made the ghosts fly on the wind: Ghosts fled on every side, and rolled their gathered...harps of the bards, untouched, sound mournful over the hill.9 The second sound stirred up dreams of battle in the minds of the sleeping warriors: He struck...

...Scotch and Irilb bards have formed, on the original of Offian. of war ! — Ghofts fled on every fide, and rolled their gathered forms on the wind. — Thrice from the winding vale arofe the voice of deaths. The harps* of the bards, untouched, found mournful over the hill. HE flruck...

...T'caitra, tk. vii., "The king took his deathful spear, and struck the deeply-sounding shield. . . . Ghosts fled on every side, and rolled their gathered...the wind. — Thrice from the winding vale arose the voices of death." — ll'orht of Oisian, 1765, ii. 160.] Yet Tenderness and Time may rob the tear Of...