... 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
| Ossian - 1807 - 596 pages
...found ; and the names and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate author imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." He adds, "I asked a very learned minister in Sky, who had used all arts to make me believe the genuineness... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...found ; and the names, and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. I asked a very learned minister in Skia, who had used all the arts to make me believe the ge. anineuessof... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...found; and the names, and some of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...found; and the names, and some of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor 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... | |
| Biography - 1815 - 542 pages
...found; and the names and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." Again, " I have yet supposed no imposture but in the publisher, yet 1 am far from certainty, that some... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 512 pages
...found ; and the names and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole." Again, " I have yet supposed no imposture but in the publisher, yet 1 am far from certainty, that some... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 424 pages
...found ; and the names, and some of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 pages
...found; and the names, and some of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor 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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 pages
...found ; and the names, and some of the images, being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor 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... | |
| Archibald MacNeill - 1868 - 88 pages
...be found; and the names of some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole. " It is said that some men of integrity profess to have heard parts of it, but they all heard them... | |
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