You have a just and laudable zeal for the credit of these poems; they are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities, in all respects, that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption,... The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4291805Full view - About this book
| Malcolm Laing - Scotland - 1804 - 558 pages
...poems : they are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities in all respects, that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters ; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson h^s - totally abandoned all care of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself l... | |
| Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...poems. They are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities in all respects that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as MACPHERSON has totally abandoned all care of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself; and... | |
| Bards and bardism - 1810 - 364 pages
...are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities in all respects that ever was dis"Soin JfS. covered in the commonwealth of letters; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally abandoned all care of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself; and... | |
| Ossian - 1845 - 546 pages
...poems. They are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities in all respects that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters ; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally ahandoned all care of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself: and... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1846 - 510 pages
...poems; they are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities, in all respects, that ever was discovered in the commonwealth of letters; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally abandoned all care of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself; and... | |
| 1865 - 838 pages
...are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities, in all respects, that ever was discovered in thf, commonwealth of letters, and the child is in a manner become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally abandoned all care ofit.'\ Such was the sort of opposition given by Hume; does... | |
| Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...They are, if genuine, one of the greatest curiosities, in all respects, that \ever was foiscovered in the commonwealth of letters ; and the child is, in a manner, become yours by adoption, as Macpherson has totally abandoned all e of it. These motives call upon you to exert yourself, and I... | |
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