 ... long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. He has doubtless inserted names that circulate in popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found; and the names and some of the images being...  The Poems of Ossian - Page vi1807Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1792 - 258 pages
...found ; and the names, and jboie of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I afkcd a very learned minifler in Sky, who liad ufed all the arts to make me believe the genuir^nefc... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 788 pages
...found ; and the nnmes and fome of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." '"giin, " I have yet fuppofed no impofture but hi the publifher, yet I am far from certain, that fome... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 786 pages
...found ; and the names and fome of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." ^g-iin, " I have yet. fuppofed no impofture but in the publi flier, yet I am far from certain, that... | |
 | History - 1800 - 776 pages
...found; and the names and forrie of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian .bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." ^giin, " I have yet fuppofed no impoflure but in the publifher, yet I am far from certain, that fome... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...found ; and the names, and fome of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I afked a very learned minifter in Sky, who had ufed all arts to make me believe the genuinenefs of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...found ; and the names, and fome of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. - I afked a very learned minifter in Sky, who had ufed all arts to- make me believe the genuinenefs... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1806 - 254 pages
...found ; and the names and some of " the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor iraa*' gine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has...heard the whole." Nay, he afterwards goes so far as to stale, " that though some " men of integrity profess to have heard parts of it, they all heard " them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...found ; and the names, and some of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate au. ditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I asked a very learned minister in Sky, who had used all arts to make me believe the genuineness of... | |
 | Ossian - 1807 - 546 pages
...formerly had nothing " written. That he (the editor) has doubtless inserted names that IV INTRODUCTION. now laid before the public. The Gaelic original is...was said that any of " them could recite six lines." lie farther observes, " that the Scots have something to plead " for their easy reception of an improbable... | |
 | James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1807 - 530 pages
...circulated in popular stories, and may have translated some wan" dering ballads, if any can be found ; £md the names and some of " the images being recollected,...was said that any of " them could recite six lines/' lie farther observes, " that the Scots have something to plead " for their easy reception of an improbable... | |
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