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OF OSSIAN'S POEMS. 241
" stately beauty ; her lips, in half- formed
" words, hail thee in her dream, and her
"joyful arms are spread to clasp thee. But
" alas, Crimoina, thou only dreamest. Thy
* love is fallen, never more shall he tread the
" shore of his native land. In the dust of
" Inisfail his beauty sleeps. Thou shalt
" awake from thy slumber, Crimoina, to
" know it. But when shall Armor awake
" from his long sleep? When shall the heavy
" slumber of the tenant of the tomb be end-
"ed?"
I shall add only one other short example
of Dr Smith's mode of translating.
In the Seandana, p. 112, we have, liter-
ally,
" I will not listen to the song of the thrush,
" In the fine morning of the first season, (i. e. May.)
Dr Smith translates, (p. 197.)
" It (i. e. my grief,) will not listen to all
" the larks that soar in the lowly vale, when
Q
" stately beauty ; her lips, in half- formed
" words, hail thee in her dream, and her
"joyful arms are spread to clasp thee. But
" alas, Crimoina, thou only dreamest. Thy
* love is fallen, never more shall he tread the
" shore of his native land. In the dust of
" Inisfail his beauty sleeps. Thou shalt
" awake from thy slumber, Crimoina, to
" know it. But when shall Armor awake
" from his long sleep? When shall the heavy
" slumber of the tenant of the tomb be end-
"ed?"
I shall add only one other short example
of Dr Smith's mode of translating.
In the Seandana, p. 112, we have, liter-
ally,
" I will not listen to the song of the thrush,
" In the fine morning of the first season, (i. e. May.)
Dr Smith translates, (p. 197.)
" It (i. e. my grief,) will not listen to all
" the larks that soar in the lowly vale, when
Q
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > Ossian Collection > Essay on the authenticity of the poems of Ossian > (271) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/76592345 |
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| Description | "... in which the objections of Malcolm Laing Esq are particularly considered and refuted". |
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| Shelfmark | Blair.75 |
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| Description | Selected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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| Description | Selected items from five 'Special and Named Printed Collections'. Includes books in Gaelic and other Celtic languages, works about the Gaels, their languages, literature, culture and history. |
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