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46 DISSERTATION, &€.
that period. On other subjects, the bards of Irelan
have displayed a genius worthy of any age or natior
It was alone in matters of antiquity that they wer
monstrous in their fables. Their love-sonnets, an
their elegies on the death of persons worthy or re
nov\*ned, abound with such beautiful simplicity of sen
tinr>ent, and wild harmony of numbers, that they be
come more than an atonement for their errors in ever)
other species of poetry. But the beauty of these spe-
cics depend so much on a certain * curiosa felicitas' o
expression in the original, that they must appear much
to disadvantage in another language.
that period. On other subjects, the bards of Irelan
have displayed a genius worthy of any age or natior
It was alone in matters of antiquity that they wer
monstrous in their fables. Their love-sonnets, an
their elegies on the death of persons worthy or re
nov\*ned, abound with such beautiful simplicity of sen
tinr>ent, and wild harmony of numbers, that they be
come more than an atonement for their errors in ever)
other species of poetry. But the beauty of these spe-
cics depend so much on a certain * curiosa felicitas' o
expression in the original, that they must appear much
to disadvantage in another language.
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| Early Gaelic Book Collections > Ossian Collection > Poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal > (62) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/77919831 |
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| Description | Translated by James Macpherson ; to which are prefixed, Dissertations on the era and poems of Ossian ... embellished with engravings. |
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| Shelfmark | Oss.68 |
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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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