 ... residue with the very soul of the Celtic genius in it, and which has the proud distinction of having brought this soul of the Celtic genius into contact with the genius of the nations of modern Europe and enriched all our poetry by it. Woody Morven,...  The Cornhill Magazine - Pàgina 116editat per - 1866Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1871 - 880 pàgines
...and enriched all our poetry by it. Woody Morven, and echoing Lora, and Selma with its silent halls ! We all owe them a debt of gratitude, and when we are...unjust enough to forget it, may the Muse forget us I " This passage, which so vividly describee how Ossiau, on his first appearance, thrilled the heart... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pàgines
...enriched all our poetry by it. Woody Morven, and echoing Sora, and Selma with its silent halls — we all owe them a debt of gratitude, and when we are...forget us! Choose any one of the better passages in Macphereon's Ossian, and ' you can see what an apparition of newness and power such a strain must have... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - 840 pàgines
...and enriched all our poetry by it. Woody Morven, and echoing Sora, and Selma with its silent halls— we all owe them a debt of gratitude, and when we are...the Muse forget us ! Choose any one of the better passnges in Macpherson's Ossian, and you can see even at this time of day what an apparition of newness... | |
 | Dublin University Magazine,A Literary and Political Journal - 1867 - 726 pàgines
...Мц»е forget tu ! Choose any one of t!ie better passages in Macpherson's OiAvm, and you can sue even at this time of day, what an apparition of newness and power such a strain brings to the eighteenth century. (Then is quoted the beautiful passage, ' I have seen the walls of... | |
 | John Stuart Stuart-Glennie - 1869 - 184 pàgines
...enriched all our poetry by it. Woody Morven, and echoing Lora, and Selma with its silent halls!—we all owe them a debt of gratitude, and when we are unjust enough to forget it, may the Muse forget us !" 7 With respect to the authorship of the Fingalian Epic, Mr. Campbell's " theory is, that about the... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1871 - 542 pàgines
...and enriched all our poetry by it. Wood}. Morven, and echoing Lora, and Selma with its silent halls ! We all owe them a debt of gratitude, and when we are...unjust enough to forget it, may the Muse forget us!" This passage, which so vividly describes how Ossian, on his first appearance, thrilled the heart of... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - 1871 - 298 pàgines
...with Mr. Arnold, and exclaim, " Woody Morven, and echoing Lora, and Selma with its silent halls — we all owe them a debt of gratitude ; and when we...unjust enough to forget it, may the Muse forget us!"* As to the question of authenticity, that need not be introduced at this time of day. Gibbon's sneer... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1875 - 622 pàgines
...poetry by it. Woody Morven, and eehoing Lora, and Selma with itx silent halls? We all owe them a deht of gratitude, and when we are unjust enough to forget it, may the Muse forget us!" In 1764 Maepherson aeeompanied Governor Johnstone to Florida, aeting as his seeretary, and after visiting... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - 1876 - 604 pàgines
...and enriched all our poetry by it. Woody Morven, and echoing Lora, and Selma with its silent halls ? We all owe them a debt of gratitude, and when we are...unjust enough to forget it, may the Muse forget us !" In 1764 Macpherson accompanied Governor Johnstone to Florida, acting as his secretary, and after... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1880 - 1436 pàgines
...and enriched all our poetry by it. Woody Morven and echoing Lora and Selma, with its silent halls ! we all owe them a debt of gratitude, and when we are...unjust enough to forget it, may the Muse forget us ! ' I3 These eloquent words of the no less generous than fastidious Saxon critic must here suffice... | |
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