| Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...rejected with disdain and indignation, as a palpable and most impudent forgery. This opinion has, indeed, become very prevalent among the men of letters in...be thrown aside, and will fall into final oblivion. " The absurd pride and caprice of MACPHERSON * "A REPORT of the Committee of the Highland Society of... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1810 - 364 pages
...rejected, with disdain and mdignation, as a palpable and most impudent forgery. This opinion has, indeed, become very prevalent among the men of letters in...footing, will be. thrown aside, and will fall into tinal oblivion. " The absurd pride and caprice of Macpherson himself, who scorns, as he pretends, to... | |
| Ossian - 1834 - 218 pages
...rejected with disdain and indignation, as a palpable and most impudent forgery. This opinion has, indeed, become very prevalent among the men of letters in...be thrown aside, and will fall into final oblivion. 'The absurd pride and caprice of Macpherson himself, who scorns, as he pretends, to satisfy any body... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1839 - 426 pages
...rejected with disdain and indignation, as a palpable and impudent forgery. This opinion has, indeed, become very prevalent among the men of letters in...a few years, the poems, if they continue to stand upon their present footing, will be thrown aside, and will fall into final oblivion. " The absurd pride... | |
| Ossian - 1845 - 546 pages
...containing some of the principal documents on which the leport is founded. Edinburgh, ISOi.' 8vo. pp. 343. the men of letters in London ; and I can foresee,...be thrown aside, and will fall into final oblivion. ' The absurd pride and caprice of Macpherson himself, who scorns, as he pretends, to satisfy any body... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1846 - 510 pages
...rejected with disdain and indignation, as a palpable and most impudent forgery. This opinion has, indeed, become very prevalent among the men of letters in...they continue to stand on their present footing, will bo thrown aside, and will fall into final oblivion. It is in vain to say that their beauty will support... | |
| Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1850 - 548 pages
...indignation, as a palpable and most impudent forgery. Thispj-inion has, indeed, become veiy prevalent amolig the men of letters in London ; and I can foresee,...be thrown aside, and will fall into final oblivion. * "A Report of the committee of the Highland Society of Scot- ) ('• '--- land, appointed to inquire... | |
| French examination papers - 1863 - 282 pages
...rejected with disdain and indignation, as a palpable and most impudent forgery. This opinion has, indeed, become very prevalent among the men of letters in London; and I can forsee that in a few years the poems, if they continue to stand on their present footing, will be thrown... | |
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