11) Ullin. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 ...Fingal s aged bard. (Ossian.) Lord Ullin s Daughter. A ballad by Campbell. She eloped with the chief of Ulva s Isle, and, being pursued, induced a boatman to row... 12) Luath (2 syl.). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 ...Cuthullin s dog in Ossian s Fingal; also the name of the poor man s dog representing the peasantry in The Twa Dogs, by RobertBurns. The gentleman s dog is called... 13) Spear. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 ...Cairbar asks if Fingal comes in peace, to which Mor-annal replies: "In peace he comes not, king of Erin, I have seen his forward spear." If a stranger kept the point... 14) Co'nan. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 ...The Thersi t s of "Fingal;" brave even to rashness. 1 Blow for blow or claw for claw, as Conan said. Conan made a vow never to take a blow without returning it; when... 15) Os'sian. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 ...The son of Fingal, a Scottish warrior-bard who lived in the third century. The poems called Ossian s Poems were first published by James M'Pherson in 1760, and professed... 16) Ros-crana. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 ...Daughter of Cormac, King of Moi-lena, wife of Fingal. (Ossian: Tamora, iv.) 1... 17) Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Macpherson, James ...(b. 1738, d. 1796). The Highlander (1758); Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760); Fingal, an Ancient Poem, in Six Books, composed by Ossian (1762); Temora, an Ancient... 18) Bran. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 ...If not the real "Simon Pure," it is just as good. A complimentary expression. Bran was Fingal s dog, a mighty favourite. 1... 19) Isle of Mist (The). Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898 ...shrouded in mist. 1 "Nor sleep thy hand by thy side, chief of the Isle of Mist."Ossian: Fingal, i.... 20) Wordsworth, William. 1888. Complete Poetical Works. ...STAFFA YE shadowy Beings, that have rights and claims In every cell of Fingal's mystic Grot, Where are ye? Driven or venturing to the spot, Our fathers glimpses caught... |