 | Katie Trumpener - History - 1997 - 450 pages
...other form than that which we have seen. The editor, or author, never could shew the original. ... He has doubtless inserted names that circulate in...wandering ballads, if any can be found: and the names, and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian... | |
 | John T. Lynch - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 244 pages
...convinced that no significant body of poetry could survive oral transmission: "Whence could it be had? It is too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written."40 We, coming after Parry and Lord, know better, and Macpherson's modern defenders seemto... | |
 | 1796 - 504 pages
...is the lait refuge of guilt. It would be eafy to mew it, if he had it ; but whence could it be had ? It is too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. He has doubtlels inferted names that circulate in popular itories, and may have tranflated iöme wandering... | |
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It would be easy to shew it if he had it ; but whence could it be had ? It is too 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... 
