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... Celtic family of languages . For this neglect our Scottish philologers , who ought to have seen more sharply , and our Highland upper and middle classes , who ought to have felt more truly , are chiefly responsible . From a residence of ...
... Celtic family of languages . For this neglect our Scottish philologers , who ought to have seen more sharply , and our Highland upper and middle classes , who ought to have felt more truly , are chiefly responsible . From a residence of ...
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... Celtic lore , without whose aid I should never have succeeded in working my way through the difficul- ties which a poetical translator from the great Gaelic classics at this time of day cannot fail to encounter . The names of the Rev ...
... Celtic lore , without whose aid I should never have succeeded in working my way through the difficul- ties which a poetical translator from the great Gaelic classics at this time of day cannot fail to encounter . The names of the Rev ...
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... Celtic element in our mixed population must lament . No doubt Walter Scott with his Rob Roy , Robert Burns , to a certain extent , with his Highland Mary , and Wordsworth with his Inversnaid Beauty , did something to revive the kindly ...
... Celtic element in our mixed population must lament . No doubt Walter Scott with his Rob Roy , Robert Burns , to a certain extent , with his Highland Mary , and Wordsworth with his Inversnaid Beauty , did something to revive the kindly ...
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... Celtic in nothing but the ground on which they stood ; the language and the music , which even till now had stirred the stoutest hearts and raised the most effective war - cry in our great British battle - fields , was treated ...
... Celtic in nothing but the ground on which they stood ; the language and the music , which even till now had stirred the stoutest hearts and raised the most effective war - cry in our great British battle - fields , was treated ...
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... Celtic name had since then , from the rising to the setting sun , defended the boundaries of our broad empire in moments of peril , that the general feeling towards the Gaels remained that of kindliness and of admiration . Such a ...
... Celtic name had since then , from the rising to the setting sun , defended the boundaries of our broad empire in moments of peril , that the general feeling towards the Gaels remained that of kindliness and of admiration . Such a ...
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admiration ancient ballads bard beautiful belongs blood boatie bonnie brae brave Campbell Celt Celtic character Clan classical deer Donald Dorain doubt Dugald Buchanan Duncan Ban Edinburgh English fashion father Fingal Gael Gaelic language Gaidheal Gairloch genius German glen Greek green grey heart heather Highland Homer Iain Lom intellectual island James Macpherson John Kilmallie lairds land Latin learned literary literature living Loch Loch Maree Loch Nell look Lord Lowland lyric poetry lyrical M'Donald Mackenzie Macleod Macpherson Mary matter modern mountain native natural Neath never noble North Uist notable O'er original Ossian persons poems poet poetical poetry popular praise present rich Rob Donn roots Sanscrit Saxon Scotland Scottish Scottish Highlands sing Skye song sorrow soul stout Teutonic thee things thou tion tongue translation verb verses vowel wise words young