 | François Joseph Amours - 1897 - 608 ページ
...corruptions, nothing can be made out of the third one ; hence the obvious inference that the author knew his ground in Scotland and on the Border, and...drew on his imagination for localities further south. If the poem belonged to Cumberland or Lancashire the reverse should have happened : the Scottish topography... | |
 | 1900 - 616 ページ
...See instance in truce of 1343, Murimuth (Eng. Hist. Soc.), 142. 'Scot. AIM. Poems, introd., Ixxiij. it an 'obvious inference that the poet knew his ground...Macedonian may be an accident, but may be a straw which indicates the current. If it be asked who Huchown's chief hero was, the answer is ready — it was... | |
 | Glasgow Archaeological Society - 1903 - 706 ページ
...intimacy with Scotland. On the later poem, M. Amours,2 examining the topographical allusions, finds it an 'obvious inference that the poet knew his ground...Macedonian may be an accident, but may be a straw which indicates the current. If it be asked who Huchown's chief hero was, the answer is ready — it was... | |
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In the Alexander poem, the exclusion of Scotland from the conquests of the Macedonian may be an accident, but may be a straw which indicates the current. If it be asked who Huchown's chief hero was, the answer is ready — it was Gawayne 'off the west... 