| Walter Scott - 1813 - 512 pages
...researches, and contained much valuable information on the subject of highland manners and tradition, which is now probably lost to the public. It is remarkable,...ballad, founded upon the romantic legend respecting Mac Phail of Colonsay, and the Mermaid of Corrievrekin, inscribed to Lady Charlotte Campbell, and published... | |
| Walter Scott - 1813 - 504 pages
...remark* able, that after long and painful research in quest of original passages of the poems of Ocsiun, he adopted an opinion more favourable to their authenticity...ballad, founded upon the romantic legend respecting Mac Phi.il of Colonsay, and the Mermaid of Corrievrekin, inscribed to Lady Charlotte Campbell, and... | |
| 1813 - 506 pages
...an opinion more favourable to their authenticity than has lately prevailed in the literary wo 'Id. But the confessed infidelity of Macpherson must always...ballad, founded upon the romantic legend respecting Mic Ph»il of Colonsay, and the Mermaid of Corrievrekin, inscribed to Lady Charlotte Campbell, and... | |
| 1813 - 502 pages
...thenticity than has lately prevailed in the literary world. But the confessed infidelity of Macphcrson must always excite the strongest suspicion on this...ballad, founded upon the romantic legend respecting Mac Phail of Colonsay, and the Mermaid of Corrievrekin, inscribed to. Lady Charlotte Campbell, and... | |
| Adam Waldie - 1833 - 640 pages
...confessed infidelity of Macpherson must always excite the strongest suspicion on this su'ijecl. Leydcu composed, with his usual facility, several detached...have probably perished, excepting a ballad founded ujion the romantic legend respecting Macphail of Colonsay and the Mermaid of Oorrievrekin, inscribed... | |
| Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...strongest suspicion on thi subject. Leyden composed, with his usual facility several detached poems щит Highland traditions all of which have probably perished, excepting a ballad founded upon the romantic lout-nd respecting Macphail of Colonsay and the mermaid of Corrie vrekm, inscribed to Lady Charlotte... | |
| |