 | Paul O'Brien - 1809 - 240 pàgines
...Languages ; but the Bards, in the glow of Poetic rapture, passed the ordinary bounds, and upon the common superlative, which their heated imaginations made...raised a second comparative and superlative ; and on the second also, raised a third comparative and superlative-, from an irregular but noble effort to... | |
 | 1842 - 410 pàgines
...Languages ; but the Bards, in the glow of poetic rapture, passed the ordinary bounds, and upon the common superlative, which their heated imaginations made...raised a second comparative and superlative ; and on the second also raised a third comparative and superlative ; from an irregular but noble effort to... | |
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... of them, which, though not altogether correct, conveys a strong idea of what he considered bardic eloquence : " There are in common Irish but the three degrees of comparison found in all other Languages ; but the Bards, in the glow of poetic rapture,... 