 | James Grant - Celtic languages - 1814 - 586 pages
...dated Edinburgh, 8th February 1761, Mr Macpherson writes to the same 408 reverend gentleman : — " I am favoured with your "last letter, enclosing four...beg you send me " what more you can conveniently." Dr Adam Ferguson writes to the Chairman of the Highland Society of Scotland :* — " The frag" ments... | |
 | Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 pages
...letter enclosing the Gaelic poems, for which I hold myself extremely obliged to you. Duan a Ghairbh is less poetical and more obscure than Tiontach mor...manuscripts containing Ossianic poetry, and some at * HSR, App., p. 154. f Id., p. 156. least of an old date ; and that up to 1761 there is no appearance... | |
 | Ossian - 1870 - 596 pages
...lucky enough to lay my hands on a pretty complete poem, and truly epic concerning Fingal." . . . " I am favoured with your last letter enclosing four...I beg you send me what more you can conveniently." J Dr Johnson says, sneeringly, that the father of Ossian boasted of having two chestfuls of MSS. Macpherson... | |
 | Archibald Clerk - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1870 - 590 pages
...lucky enough to lay my hands on a pretty complete poem, and truly epic concerning Fingal." . . . " I am favoured with your last letter enclosing four...I beg you send me what more you can conveniently." J Dr Johnson says, sneeringly, that the father of Ossian boasted of having two chestfuls of MSS. Macpherson... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...entertained some idea of the kind, and he wrote to him on the subject again. "Edinburgh, 8th February, 1761. "I am favoured with your last letter, enclosing four poems, for which I am obliged to you. I beg you send me what more you can conveniently. I have resolved to print by subscription.... | |
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I am favoured with your last letter, enclosing four poems, for which I am much obliged to you. I beg you send me what more you can conveniently. 