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Panditur extemplo foribus domua atra revulsis; ^ 



Abstracteeque boves, abjurataeque rapinse 

 Coelo ostenduntur,.. . . . ,, ^j,i , 



ViRG. ^N. viii. 262. 



The God then burst the gates ; and open lie 

 The den's vast depths, all naked to the sky : 

 Th' expanded caves dismiss th* imprison'd prey, 

 From the black darksome dungeon to the day. 



Pitt. 



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IMITATIONS FROM SCRIPTURE. 



Job, in one of his most sublime passages, says, " a spirit passed before my face," iv. 15.; 

 and Macpherson introduces one of his ghosts in almost the same words : " a thin form passed 

 before me." 



.£1 .v«i " Y'e shall seek me and shall not find me." 



John, vii. 34. 

 ' The maids shall seek thee on the heath, but they shall not find thee." 



Macpherson. 



" That field was called the field of blood unto this day." 



^o-cJirruiiiiioi. :: Mat. xxvii. 8. 



"She (Grudar) mourned him in the field of blood." 



FiNGAL, book i. 



■ Every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills." 



Ps. 1. 10. 

 " Comhal was the chief of a hundred hills ; 

 His deer drank of a thousand streams !" 



FiNOALj ii. 



