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" ... have been lucky enough to lay my hands on a pretty complete poem, and truly epic, concerning Fingal, The antiquity of it is easily ascertained, and it is not only superior to any thing in that language, but reckoned not inferior to the more polite... "
Notes on the Authenticity of Ossian's Poems - Page 15
by Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 76 pages
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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, Appointed to ...

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1805 - 526 pages
...give me all convenient assistance in my present undertaking. / have been lucly enough to lay my hinds on a pretty complete poem, and truly epic, concerning...easily ascertained, and it is not only superior to any thing in that language, but reckoned not inferior to the more polite performances of other nations...
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Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, Appointed to ...

Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1805 - 532 pages
...undertaking. / have been lucky enough to lay my binds on a pretty complete poem, aitd truly r/i/V, concerning fingal. — The antiquity of it is easily ascertained, and it is not only superior to any thing in that language, but reckoned not inferior to the more polite performances of other nations...
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A Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian

Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...letter to Mr. Maclagan, dated l6lh January, 1761, when he first had discovered the poem of Fingal. " I " have been lucky enough to lay my hands on a pretty cora" plete poem, and truly epic, concerning Fingal." Report of the Highland Society, Appendix, p....
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The poems of Ossian, in the orig. Gaelic, with a tr. into Lat. by ..., Volume 3

Ossian - 1807 - 596 pages
...Mr. Maclagan, " I have been lucky * See Appendix to the Report of the Highland Society, p. 153, 154. enough to lay my hands on a pretty complete poem and truly epic, concerning Fingal." And in his letter to the Deputation of the Highland Society of London, he says, " I shall adhere to...
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The Poems of Ossian, Volume 1

1807 - 536 pages
...letter to Mr. Maclagan, dated l6ih January, 1761, when he first had discovered the poem of Fingul. " I " have been lucky enough to lay my hands on a pretty com" plete poem, and truly epic, concerning Fingal." Report of the Highland Society, Appendix, p. 155....
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The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic, Volume 1

James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1807 - 530 pages
...letter to Mr. Maclagan, dated l6ih January, 1761, when he first had discovered the poem of Fingal. " I " have been lucky enough to lay my hands on a pretty com" plete poem, and truly epic, concerning Fingal." Report of the Highland Society, Appendix, p. 155....
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The poems of Ossian, in the orig. Gaelic, with a tr. into Lat. by ..., Volume 1

Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...letter to Mr. Maclagan, dated l6lh January, 1761, when he first had discovered the poem of Fingal. " I " have been lucky enough to lay my hands on a pretty com" plete poem, and truly epic, concerning Fingal." Report of the H ighland Society, Appendix, p....
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Thoughts on the Origin and Descent of the Gael: With an Account of the Picts ...

James Grant - Celtic languages - 1814 - 586 pages
...poem, were it complete; and is " particularly valuable for the ancient manners " it contains." — " / have been lucky enough to " lay my hands on a pretty...easily ascertained, and it is not only " superior to any thing in that language, but " reckoned not inferior to the more polite " performances of other...
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A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans, Volume 1

James Browne - Clans - 1838 - 558 pages
...correspondence; and hope that you will give me all convenient assistance in my present undertaking. " 1 hate been lucky enough to lay my hands on a pretty complete...Fingal. The antiquity of it is easily ascertained, aud it is not only superior to any thing in that language, but reckoned not inferior to the more polite...
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A History of the Highlands and of the Highland Clans, Volume 1

James Browne - Clans - 1843 - 546 pages
...correspondence ; and hope that you will give me all convenient assistance in my present undertaking. " / have been lucky enough to lay my hands on a pretty...easily ascertained, and it is not only superior to any thing in that language, but reckoned not inferior to the more polite performances of other nations...
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