 | Ossian - 1857 - 326 ページ
...argument, in this Dissertation, against the antiquity of the Irish poems is set forth in these words, — " Unluckily for the antiquities of Ireland, they appear to be the work of a very modern period. Every stanza, nay almost every line, afford striking proofs that they cannot be three centuries old. Their... | |
 | John Semple Smart - 1905 - 256 ページ
...Irish poems concerning Fion " :— "I have just now in my hands all that remain of those compositions ; but, unluckily for the antiquities of Ireland, they...appear to be the work of a very modern period. Every stanza, nay almost every line, affords striking proofs that they cannot be three centuries old. Their... | |
 | Wolf Gerhard Schmidt - 2003 - 612 ページ
...märchenhaft charakterisiert: I have just now, in my hands, all that remain, of those compositions; but, unluckily for the antiquities of Ireland, they appear to be the work of a very modem period. Every stanza, nay almost every line, affords striking proofs, that they cannot be three... | |
 | Dafydd Moore - 2004 - 612 ページ
...IriUh poems, concerning Fan. 1 have juft now, in my hands, all that remain, of thofe compofitions ; but, unluckily for the antiquities of Ireland, they appear to be the work of a very modem period. Every ftanza, nay almoft every line, affords (biking proofs, that they cannot be three... | |
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Their allufions to the manners and cuftoms of the fifteenth century, are fo many, that it is matter of wonder to me, how any one could dream of their antiquity. 
