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... never heard it men- tioned in a company , where some one person or other did not express his doubts with re- gard to the authenticity of the poems which are its subject ; and I often hear them totally rejected with disdain and ...
... never heard it men- tioned in a company , where some one person or other did not express his doubts with re- gard to the authenticity of the poems which are its subject ; and I often hear them totally rejected with disdain and ...
Page 8
... never learn that any one ever heard or could repeat the original of any one paragraph of the pretended translation . This generality , then , must be carefully guarded against , as being of no authority . • So in MS . ' Your connexions ...
... never learn that any one ever heard or could repeat the original of any one paragraph of the pretended translation . This generality , then , must be carefully guarded against , as being of no authority . • So in MS . ' Your connexions ...
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... never doubted of the existence of such poems as Mr. Macpher- son had translated ; that they had heard many We doubt not that Mr. Professor Porson could , if he pleased , forge a short poem in Greek , and ascribing it for instance to ...
... never doubted of the existence of such poems as Mr. Macpher- son had translated ; that they had heard many We doubt not that Mr. Professor Porson could , if he pleased , forge a short poem in Greek , and ascribing it for instance to ...
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... never doubted . A few of the Committee's correspon- dents sent them such ancient poems as they possessed in writing , from having formerly ta- ken them down from the oral recitation of the old Highlanders who were in use to recite them ...
... never doubted . A few of the Committee's correspon- dents sent them such ancient poems as they possessed in writing , from having formerly ta- ken them down from the oral recitation of the old Highlanders who were in use to recite them ...
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... never see thy counte nance though thy yellow golden locks are spread on the face of the clouds in the east ; or when thou tremblest in the west , at thy dusky aoors in the ocean . Perhaps thou and myself are at one time mighty , at ...
... never see thy counte nance though thy yellow golden locks are spread on the face of the clouds in the east ; or when thou tremblest in the west , at thy dusky aoors in the ocean . Perhaps thou and myself are at one time mighty , at ...
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