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" Hse tibi erunt artes ; pacisque imponere morem, 



Parcere subjeclis, et debellare superbos." Vxrg. 



" O Oscar, bend the strong in arm, but spare the feeble hand." 



FiNGAL, book iii. 



" Ossian be thou a storm in war, but mild when the foe is low." 



Calthon and Conmau 



" Smooth-sliding without step." 



Milton. 



' Its large limbs did not move in steps." 



Cartoon. 



" Penthesilea furens, mediisque in millihus ardet." 

 " Fierce Cairbar roared in the midst of thousands.' 



ViRG. 



Macfherson. 



" Like a broad shield amid the watry waste." 



Pope's Odyssey. 



On the third day arose Tromathon, like a blue shield in the midst of the sea." 



Oithona. 



"Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold." 



Milton. 



'A sun-beam was on his skirts; they glittered like the gold of the stranger." 



Macpherson. 



part huge of bulk 

 " Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait 

 Tempest the ocean." Par. Lost, book vii. 410. 



" The waves sport unwieldy round with all their backs of foam." 



Temora, book viii. 



« Windy Troy." " Windy Temora." 



J HoM. Macpherson. 



