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We find , indeed , both from the evidence arising from the Scottish poems themselves , and from the testimony of the Danish historian Suhm * , that * Speaking of Swaran's contest with a Norwegian prince of the name of Gram ...
We find , indeed , both from the evidence arising from the Scottish poems themselves , and from the testimony of the Danish historian Suhm * , that * Speaking of Swaran's contest with a Norwegian prince of the name of Gram ...
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bard , and are for a time persuaded it is Ossian him- self who speaks . We do not seem to read a narra- tion of events , wherein the writer was neither a witness nor a party : -it is the son — the father— the hero - the patriot who ...
bard , and are for a time persuaded it is Ossian him- self who speaks . We do not seem to read a narra- tion of events , wherein the writer was neither a witness nor a party : -it is the son — the father— the hero - the patriot who ...
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Indeed , at an era when the rest of Europe was involved in the grossest ignorance , it speaks highly in favour of the comparative state of Ireland , that her bards were able not only to relish and admire the disinterested patriotism ...
Indeed , at an era when the rest of Europe was involved in the grossest ignorance , it speaks highly in favour of the comparative state of Ireland , that her bards were able not only to relish and admire the disinterested patriotism ...
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... in his pre- face , when speaking of the doubts which have been unreasonably entertained as to the very existence of his hero , that “ whether the extraordinary narrative of Geoffrey of Monmouth , and the more consistent testimony of ...
... in his pre- face , when speaking of the doubts which have been unreasonably entertained as to the very existence of his hero , that “ whether the extraordinary narrative of Geoffrey of Monmouth , and the more consistent testimony of ...
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Whilst he is yet speaking , the shouts of the populace and the voice of the clarions announce the approach of the youthful warrior , who is thus briefly but forcibly described : His martial mien with pleasure strikes our view ...
Whilst he is yet speaking , the shouts of the populace and the voice of the clarions announce the approach of the youthful warrior , who is thus briefly but forcibly described : His martial mien with pleasure strikes our view ...
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| Title | Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volume 2 Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Nathan Drake |
| Author | Nathan Drake |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1828 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 12 Mar 2008 |
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