The Poems of Ossian, Volume 2W. Miller, 1805 - Scottish Gaelic poetry |
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... poems , which contain the detail of them , are long since lost . He lived , it is supposed , in that part of the north of ... poem , which is still preserved . It is not the work of Ossian ; the phraseology betrays it to be a modern ...
... poems , which contain the detail of them , are long since lost . He lived , it is supposed , in that part of the north of ... poem , which is still preserved . It is not the work of Ossian ; the phraseology betrays it to be a modern ...
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... poem , I should have here presented to the reader a translation of it , did not the bard mention some circumstances very ridiculous , and others altogether indecent . Morna , the wife of Com- hal , had a principal hand in all the ...
... poem , I should have here presented to the reader a translation of it , did not the bard mention some circumstances very ridiculous , and others altogether indecent . Morna , the wife of Com- hal , had a principal hand in all the ...
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... poem consists of many stanzas . The language is figurative , and the numbers harmonious ; but the piece is so full of anachronisms , and so unequal in its composition , that the author , most undoubtedly , was either mad , or drunk ...
... poem consists of many stanzas . The language is figurative , and the numbers harmonious ; but the piece is so full of anachronisms , and so unequal in its composition , that the author , most undoubtedly , was either mad , or drunk ...
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... poems of Ossian , have in- serted a great many incidents between the second and third duan of Cath - loda . Their ... poem , just now before me . It concerns a descent made by Swaran , king of Lochlin , on Ireland ; and is the work ...
... poems of Ossian , have in- serted a great many incidents between the second and third duan of Cath - loda . Their ... poem , just now before me . It concerns a descent made by Swaran , king of Lochlin , on Ireland ; and is the work ...
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