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Page 18
... looks through a cloud on the field , and her gray mist on the sides of the rocks ; a blast from the north on the plain , a traveller in distress , and he slow . ' Re- The comparison may be made , by turning to the end of Mr ...
... looks through a cloud on the field , and her gray mist on the sides of the rocks ; a blast from the north on the plain , a traveller in distress , and he slow . ' Re- The comparison may be made , by turning to the end of Mr ...
Page 28
... look at Dr. Keating's , or any other history of that country , will find the matter related as above , whereas , in the Chronicon Scotorum , from which the list of the Scotch kings is taken , and the pretended MSS . they so much boast ...
... look at Dr. Keating's , or any other history of that country , will find the matter related as above , whereas , in the Chronicon Scotorum , from which the list of the Scotch kings is taken , and the pretended MSS . they so much boast ...
Page 61
... look upon antiquity in this light , it is an agreeable prospect ; and they alone can have real pleasure in tracing nations to their source . The establishment of the Celtic states , in the north of Europe , is beyond the reach of ...
... look upon antiquity in this light , it is an agreeable prospect ; and they alone can have real pleasure in tracing nations to their source . The establishment of the Celtic states , in the north of Europe , is beyond the reach of ...
Page 81
... look to the language , it is so different from the Irish dialect , that it would be as ridiculous to think , that Milton's Paradise Lost could be wrote by a Scottish peasant , as to suppose , that the poems ascribed to Ossian were writ ...
... look to the language , it is so different from the Irish dialect , that it would be as ridiculous to think , that Milton's Paradise Lost could be wrote by a Scottish peasant , as to suppose , that the poems ascribed to Ossian were writ ...
Page 118
... looks into traditionary history for names and incidents , to give his fable some air of probability . Never did a more frigid , pedantic notion enter into the mind of a critic . We may safely pronounce , that he who should compose an ...
... looks into traditionary history for names and incidents , to give his fable some air of probability . Never did a more frigid , pedantic notion enter into the mind of a critic . We may safely pronounce , that he who should compose an ...
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