The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 3J.Fr. Valade and sold by Theophilus Barrois, 1783 |
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Page xxi
... must remain , in obfcurity and fable . It is in this epoch we must fix the begin- ning of the decay of that fpecies of heroilm , S which fubfifted in the days of Offian . There are three ftages in human fociety . The firft is the refult ...
... must remain , in obfcurity and fable . It is in this epoch we must fix the begin- ning of the decay of that fpecies of heroilm , S which fubfifted in the days of Offian . There are three ftages in human fociety . The firft is the refult ...
Page xxxvii
... must be owned , however , that Fion was not ing ferior to them in height . A chos air Cromleach , druim - ard , Chos eile air Crom - meal dubh , Thoga Fion le lamh mhoir An d'uifge o Lubhair na fruth . With one foot on Cromleach his ...
... must be owned , however , that Fion was not ing ferior to them in height . A chos air Cromleach , druim - ard , Chos eile air Crom - meal dubh , Thoga Fion le lamh mhoir An d'uifge o Lubhair na fruth . With one foot on Cromleach his ...
Page xl
... must have been two hundred and fifty years of age , had a daughter young enough to become wife to the faint . On account . of this family connection , Patrick of the Pfalms , for fo the apoftle of Ireland is emphatically called in the ...
... must have been two hundred and fifty years of age , had a daughter young enough to become wife to the faint . On account . of this family connection , Patrick of the Pfalms , for fo the apoftle of Ireland is emphatically called in the ...
Page xlviii
... must have made confide- rable progress in Ireland before the poems- were writ . It remains now to shew , how the Irish bards begun to appropriate Offián and his heroes to their own country . After the English conqueft , many of the ...
... must have made confide- rable progress in Ireland before the poems- were writ . It remains now to shew , how the Irish bards begun to appropriate Offián and his heroes to their own country . After the English conqueft , many of the ...
Page lii
... of these pieces , depend fo much on a certain curiofa felicitas of expreffion in the original , that they must appear much to difadvantage in another language . TE MORA : AN EPIC POEM . BOOK FIRST . lij A DISSERTATION .
... of these pieces , depend fo much on a certain curiofa felicitas of expreffion in the original , that they must appear much to difadvantage in another language . TE MORA : AN EPIC POEM . BOOK FIRST . lij A DISSERTATION .
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