 | Poetry - 1773 - 432 pages
...MDCCLXXII1. / TO HFW PUBLIC LIBRARY 24S715A ASTOR, I.KNOX »ND TILDEN. FO R 1026 PREFACE. WITHOUT encreafing his genius* the Author may have improved his language, in the eleven years, that the followlng poems have been in the hands of the public. Errors in diftion might have been committed at... | |
 | Ossian - 1790 - 446 pages
...LONDON: PRINTED FOR A. STRAHAN ; AND T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND. M DCC XC. PREFACE. WITHOUT encreafing his genius, the Author may have improved his language,...Poems have been in the hands of the Public. Errors in diclion might have been committed at twenty-four, which the experience of a riper age may remove ;... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1790 - 322 pages
...DAR-THULA, — — 275 DEATH OF CUTHULLIN, — 293 BATTLE or LORA, . — 3°5 PREFACE. W ITHOUT encreafmg- his genius, the Author may have improved his language,...Poems have been in the hands of the Public. Errors in. di&ion might have been committed at twenty-four, which the experience of a riper age may remove ; arid... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Gowrie Conspiracy, 1600 - 1800 - 500 pages
...increaf1tig his genius, the autfior may have improved " his language, in the eleven years that the poems have *" been in the hands of the public. Errors...might "have been committed at twenty-four, which the experi" ence of a riper age may remove, and fome exuberances in " imagery may be reftrained with advantage,... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...But the preface, which is always last written, avows the deception in the most unequivocal terms. " Without " increasing his genius, the author may have...improved "-his- language, in the eleven years that the poems have " been in the hands of the public. Errors in diction " might have been committed at twenty-four,... | |
 | Malcolm Laing - Darnley murder - 1804 - 556 pages
...is always last written, avows the deception in the most unequivocal terms. " Without " increasing hh genius, the author may have improved " his language, in the eleven years that the poems have " been in the hands of the public. Errors in diction " might have been committed at twenty-four,... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 648 pages
...curious are referred to it. PREFACE то THE FOURTH EDITION, PUBLISHED IN 1773. WITHOUT encreasing his genius, the author may have improved his language,...following poems have been in the hands of the public. t Errors in diction might have been committed at twenty-four, which the experience of a riper age may... | |
 | James Macpherson, Archibald M'Donald - 1805 - 308 pages
...the preface to the last corrected edition of Ossian's poems, published in 1773, Macpherson says, " without increasing his " genius, the author may have...improved " his language, in the eleven years that " the poems have been in the hands of the " public. Errors in diction might have " been committed at twenty-four,... | |
 | Patrick Graham - Ogham stones - 1807 - 512 pages
...to advert to them. " Without increasing his genius," says Mr Macpherson, in one of his prefaces, " the " AUTHOR may have improved his language, " in the eleven years that the poems have " been before the public. Errors in diction " may have been committed at twenty-four, "... | |
 | Edward Davies - Celtic poetry - 1825 - 356 pages
...he styles himself, indifferently, the author, the writer, and the translator. " With" out encreasing his genius, the author may have " improved his language...of the " public. Errors in diction might have been com" mitted at twenty-four, which the experience of " a riper age may remove; and some exuberances... | |
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WITHOUT increasing his genius, the author may have improved his language, in the eleven years that the following poems have been in the hands of the public. Errors in diction might have been committed at... 
