 Ionia, just as some curious fragments of ancient poetry have been lately collected in the northern parts of this island, their reduction to order in Greece was a work of taste and judgment; and those great names which we have mentioned might claim the...  The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic - Page lxviiby James Macpherson - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...re-establish the text in its original purity. In order to obtain that important object, it was found necessary to consult the most able grammarians, and to promise...See Pope's Essay on Homer, prefaced to the Iliad. T Introduction au Voyage de la Greece, par le jeune Anacharsis, 4to. edit. vol. I. p. 52. united to... | |
 | 1807 - 536 pages
...re-establish the text in its original purity. In order to obtain that important object, it was found necessary to consult the most able grammarians, and to promise...Introduction au Voyage de la Greece, par le jeune Anacharsis, 4to. edit. vol. I. p. 52. J Wood, p. 279. How different also was the conduct of the Grecian... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...those wonderful and splendid poems, in that state in which they have since been handed down to us. f A modern author has remarked, that the great names...See Pope's Essay on Homer, prefaced to the Iliad. t Introduction au Voyage de la Greece, par le jeune Anacharsis, 4to. edit. vol. I. p. 52. united to... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1866 - 550 pages
...reduction to order in Greece was a work of taste and judgment ; and those great names which we have mentioned might claim the same merit in regard to Homer that the ingenious editor of Fingal is entitled to from Ossian." So much for the English origination of the... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - Civilization, Celtic, in literature - 1876 - 356 pages
...reduction to order in Greece was a work of taste and judgment ; and those great names that we have mentioned might claim the same merit in regard to Homer that the ingenious editor of Fingal is entitled to from Ossian." — ROBERT WOOD. THE interest generally excited... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - Highlands (Scotland) - 1876 - 354 pages
...reduction to order in Greece was a work of taste and judgment ; and those great names that we have mentioned might claim the same merit in regard to Homer that the ingenious editor of Fingal is entitled to from Ossian." — ROBERT WOOD. THE interest generally excited... | |
 | Alfred Lohff - 1903 - 126 pages
...reduction to order in Greece was a work of taste and judgment; and those great names which we have mentioned might claim the same merit in regard to Homer, that the ingenious editor of Fingal is entitled to from Ossian." Casaubonus (1593) und die übrigen Vertreter... | |
 | William Henry Schofield - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 410 pages
...reduction to order in Greece was a work of taste and judgment; and those great names which we have mentioned might claim the same merit in regard to Homer, that the ingenious editor of Fingal is entitled to from Ossian." Page 209. §Bk. I, 11. 355 ff.; cf. Moir's... | |
 | Irene J. F. de Jong - History - 1999 - 438 pages
...reduction to order in Greece was a work of taste and judgment: and those great names which we have mentioned might claim the same merit in regard to Homer, that the ingenious Editor of Fingal is entitled to from Ossian. What we have offered on this head may seem injurious... | |
 | John Van Seters - Bible - 2006 - 446 pages
...reduction to order in Greece was a work of taste and judgment: and those great names which we have mentioned might claim the same merit in regard to Homer, that the ingenious Editor of Fingal is entitled to from Ossian." We remember at this point that Macpherson's... | |
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