Notes on the Authenticity of Ossian's Poemsauthor, 1868 - 76 pages |
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Page 12
... passage is as follows : " Man was opposed to man , and steel to steel- Shields sounding , men falling ; Like hammers of hundreds on the son of the embers Swords rose and fell . Gaul went on like a blast descending from the height , As ...
... passage is as follows : " Man was opposed to man , and steel to steel- Shields sounding , men falling ; Like hammers of hundreds on the son of the embers Swords rose and fell . Gaul went on like a blast descending from the height , As ...
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... passages which agreed exactly with the translation , viz . : " The terms of peace proposed by Morla in Swaran's name to Cuchullin- Fingal , ' Book II . , page 26 . " Likewise Fingal's orders for raising his standards , his orders to his ...
... passages which agreed exactly with the translation , viz . : " The terms of peace proposed by Morla in Swaran's name to Cuchullin- Fingal , ' Book II . , page 26 . " Likewise Fingal's orders for raising his standards , his orders to his ...
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... passage alluded to isFingal , ' Book to compare . V. , page 62. " " Archibald M'Lellan , likewise a parishioner of mine , who repeated before me in Gaelic Ossian's account of his own courtship of Everallin at the Lake of Lego , without ...
... passage alluded to isFingal , ' Book to compare . V. , page 62. " " Archibald M'Lellan , likewise a parishioner of mine , who repeated before me in Gaelic Ossian's account of his own courtship of Everallin at the Lake of Lego , without ...
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... passage that begins thus- ' Dire was the clang of their steel . ' " Those that know most about the history of Ossian and his poems in this country are now no more : for- merly I might , I daresay , make out a great deal more among them ...
... passage that begins thus- ' Dire was the clang of their steel . ' " Those that know most about the history of Ossian and his poems in this country are now no more : for- merly I might , I daresay , make out a great deal more among them ...
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... some time , but was not in possession of when Mr Macpherson's publications ap- peared . I had no doubt , however , in recognising the * H. S. R. , App . , p . 63 . " same passage in the arrival of Swarran and the THE POEMS OF OSSIAN . 23.
... some time , but was not in possession of when Mr Macpherson's publications ap- peared . I had no doubt , however , in recognising the * H. S. R. , App . , p . 63 . " same passage in the arrival of Swarran and the THE POEMS OF OSSIAN . 23.
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