 | Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...works of Ossian; nor did he assume any other merit, than what might be derived from thence. He adds, " But I have heard him express " the greatest contempt...himself, even that would not " shake my faith, for I know him to be of a tem*' per, when he was teased and fretted, to carry " his indignation that far."... | |
 | 1807 - 536 pages
...works of Ossian; nor did he assume any other merit, than what might be derived from thence. He adds, " But I have heard him express " the greatest contempt...himself, even that would not " shake my faith, for I know him to be of a tem" per, when he was teased and fretted, to carry " his indignation that far."... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...works of Ossian; nor did he assume any other merit, than what might be derived from thence. He adds, " But I have heard him express " the greatest contempt...himself, even that would not " shake my faith, for I know him to be of a tem" per, when he was teased and fretted, to carry " his indignation that far."... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1807 - 530 pages
...works of Ossian ; nor did he assume any other merit, than what might be derived from thence. He adds, " But I have heard him express " the greatest contempt and disdain for those who 46 thought him the fabricator of them. If there 46 was any person who asserted that Macpherson 44 had... | |
 | Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 pages
...his unguarded moments that he was any other than the collector and translator of the works of Ossian, or assumed any other merit than might be derived from...for those who thought him the fabricator of them." That Macpherson either admitted or asserted that his Ossian was entirely composed by himself, and not... | |
 | Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 pages
...his unguarded moments that he was any other than the collector and translator of the works of Ossian, or assumed any other merit than might be derived from...for those who thought him the fabricator of them." That Macpherson either admitted or asserted that his Ossian was entirely composed by himself, and not... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...most unguarded moments that he was any other than the collector and translator of the works of Ossian, or assumed any other merit than might be derived from...teased and fretted, to carry his indignation that far."2 Captain Morison and John Home were, at various times, much in his company in London. Blair also... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...any other than the collector and translator of the works of Ossian, or assumed any other merit that might be derived from thence. But I have heard him...teased and fretted, to carry his indignation that far. — CARLYLE, ALEXANDER, 1769-70, Report of the Highland Society, App. p. 68. I have no less zeal for... | |
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the greatest contempt and disdain for those who " thought him the fabricator of them. If there " was any person who asserted that Macpherson " had owned it to himself, even that would not " shake my faith, for I know him to be of a tem" per, when he... 