 | Natham Drake - 1800 - 510 psl.
...Slimora! with thy silent woods?" He retired* in the sound of his song. Carril joined his voice.) The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards heard it on Slimora's side. Soft sounds spread along the wood. The silent... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1803 - 386 psl.
...Slimora! with thy silent woods ?" He retired, in the sound of his song. Carril joined his voice. The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards heard on Slimora's side. Soft sounds spread along the wood. The silent... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 244 psl.
...with thy silent woods?" lie rerired in the sound of his song: Carril accompanied his voice. The mosic was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards c The bards were the heralds of ancient times ; snd thrir persons we re... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 psl.
...! with thy silent woods?" He retired, in the sound of his song. Carril joined his voice. The music was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards heard on Slimora's side. Soft sounds spread along the wood. The silent... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 psl.
...but exquisitely tender image, accompanied with the finest poetical painting. " The music of " Cam! was like the memory of joys that are past pleasant " and mournful to the soul. The ghosts of departed bards " heard it from Slimora's side. Soft sounds spread along " the wood ;... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 psl.
...one, when recalled, serves to strengthen the impression made by the othen For example, to describe the nature of soft and melancholy music, Ossian says,...that are past, " pleasant and mournful to the soul." This is happy and delicate. Yet, surely, no kind of music has any resemblance to a feeling of the mindj... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1808 - 330 psl.
...the mind, though they resemble each other, strictly speaking, in nothing. For example, to describe the nature of soft and melancholy music, Ossian says,...that « are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." This is happy and delicate ; yet no kind of music bears any resemblance to the memory of past joys.... | |
 | William Duane - 1811 - 378 psl.
...Lacedemonian letter." This is a ludicrous hyperbole. Comparison is a familiar figure....example, The mmsic of Carryl was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul. OSSIAN . , Some tliink the spirit is apt to feed on the flesh like hungry wines upon raw beef. SWIFT.... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1813 - 296 psl.
...For example, to deseribe the nature of soft and melaneholy musie, Ossian says, " The musie of Carry! was, like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the soul." This is happy and delieate ; yet no kind of musie hear s any resemblanee to the memory of past joys.... | |
 | George John Freeman - 464 psl.
...no actual resemblance. One of the most beautiful similies in the Poems of Ossian is of this kind. " The music of Carryl was like the memory of joys that are past, pleasant and mournful to the souL" The resemblance is here founded on the effect which the music of Carryl produced, the effect of pleasing... | |
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The music of Carryl was, like the ." memory of joys that are past, pleasant and 
