 ... long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. He has doubtless inserted names that circulate in popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found; and the names and some of the images being...  The poems of Ossian in the original Gaelic - Page iiiby James Macpherson - 1807Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Blackie - Civilization, Celtic, in literature - 1876 - 356 pages
...be found ; and the names of some of the images being recollected make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. " It is said that some men of integrity profess to have heard parts of it ; but they all heard them... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - Gaelic literature - 1876 - 352 pages
...be found ; and the names of some of the images being recollected make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. " It is said that some men of integrity profess to have heard parts of it ; but they all heard them... | |
 | Clans - 1880 - 500 pages
...be found, and the names of some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole," It is said that some men of integrity profess to have heard part of it ; but they all heard them when... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - 1880 - 768 pages
...be found, and the names of some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." It is said that some men of integrity profess to have heard part of it ; but they all heard them when... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1897 - 496 pages
...found ; and the names, and some of the images being recollected make an inaccurate auditor imagine by the help of Caledonian bigotry that he has formerly heard the whole*). Cf. Leiters ed. Cunningham V, 400. Cf. Leiters V, p. 433. 3) Cf. Works ed. Murphy vol. VIII, p. 312.... | |
 | John Semple Smart - Bards and bardism in literature - 1905 - 256 pages
...found; and the names and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." Meanwhile Macpherson had returned from America; had published a translation of the Iliad which met... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1906 - 270 pages
...found ; and the names and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I asked a very learned minister in Skye, who had used all arts to make me believe the genuineness of... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...found ; and the names, and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. " I asked a very learned Minister in Sky, who had used all arts to make me believe the genuineness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Hebrides - 1924 - 562 pages
...found ; and the names, and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I asked a very learned Minister in Sky, who had used all arts to make me believe the genuineness of... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 292 pages
...Haywood, The Making of History, pp. 105 14. being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.103 Macpherson discovered the nature of this passage within two days of Johnson's book being... | |
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