The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, Volume 3J.Fr. Valade and sold by Theophilus Barrois, 1783 |
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Page xxvii
... confined in proportion . A few happy expref- fions , and the manners they reprefent , may please those who understand the language ; " their obfcurity and inaccuracy would disgust in a translation . Bij A DISSERTATION . xxvij.
... confined in proportion . A few happy expref- fions , and the manners they reprefent , may please those who understand the language ; " their obfcurity and inaccuracy would disgust in a translation . Bij A DISSERTATION . xxvij.
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their obfcurity and inaccuracy would disgust in a translation . It was chiefly for this reason , that I kept wholly to the com- pofitions of Offian , in my former and pre- Tent publication . As he acted on a more ex- tenfive fphere ...
their obfcurity and inaccuracy would disgust in a translation . It was chiefly for this reason , that I kept wholly to the com- pofitions of Offian , in my former and pre- Tent publication . As he acted on a more ex- tenfive fphere ...
Page xxix
... translation were , no doubt , conscious of this , and chose rather to ad- mire their poet in fecret , than fee him re- ceived , with coldness , in an English dress . These were long my own fentiments , and accordingly , my firft ...
... translation were , no doubt , conscious of this , and chose rather to ad- mire their poet in fecret , than fee him re- ceived , with coldness , in an English dress . These were long my own fentiments , and accordingly , my firft ...
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... lay before the reader , the history of fome of the Irish poems , concerning Fion Mac Comnal . A translation of thefe pieces , if well executed , might afford fatisfaction to the public . But this ought to be the xxxviij A DISSERTATION .
... lay before the reader , the history of fome of the Irish poems , concerning Fion Mac Comnal . A translation of thefe pieces , if well executed , might afford fatisfaction to the public . But this ought to be the xxxviij A DISSERTATION .
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... translating the language of my own coun- try , and that before any tranflation of miné appeared ( 1 ) . How the gentleman came to ( 1 ) In Faulkner's Dublin Journal , of the 1ft Decem- ber , 1761 , appeared the following Advertisement ...
... translating the language of my own coun- try , and that before any tranflation of miné appeared ( 1 ) . How the gentleman came to ( 1 ) In Faulkner's Dublin Journal , of the 1ft Decem- ber , 1761 , appeared the following Advertisement ...
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