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... appears to me eminently praiseworthy . It is in that sense that I use the terin ; and it is to that end that my labours have been directed . I have judged it necessary to make this explana- tion , because the late Mr Motherwell — a poet ...
... appears to me eminently praiseworthy . It is in that sense that I use the terin ; and it is to that end that my labours have been directed . I have judged it necessary to make this explana- tion , because the late Mr Motherwell — a poet ...
Page xvi
... appears to me that unless Mr Motherwell intended to maintain ( which is a mani- fest absurdity ) that there was a duality or plu- rality of each ballad from its very origin , this passage , and much more which he has written to the same ...
... appears to me that unless Mr Motherwell intended to maintain ( which is a mani- fest absurdity ) that there was a duality or plu- rality of each ballad from its very origin , this passage , and much more which he has written to the same ...
Page xvii
... appears the most simple and least vitiated , and to give it purely and simply as he obtained it , without hazarding any emendation whatever . " If this rule had been observed by all the col- lectors of traditionary poetry ( setting ...
... appears the most simple and least vitiated , and to give it purely and simply as he obtained it , without hazarding any emendation whatever . " If this rule had been observed by all the col- lectors of traditionary poetry ( setting ...
Page xxix
... appear in these volumes , and which I am quite certain will be regarded as novelties even by such persons as have studied this branch of native literature , have been framed by diligent collation of fragments , none of which , regarded ...
... appear in these volumes , and which I am quite certain will be regarded as novelties even by such persons as have studied this branch of native literature , have been framed by diligent collation of fragments , none of which , regarded ...
Page xxxix
... appear that a metrical form of composition has always been adopted in rude ages , as the best vehicle for transmitting story or legend unimpaired and unaltered from one generation to another . An incident communicated in prose , which ...
... appear that a metrical form of composition has always been adopted in rude ages , as the best vehicle for transmitting story or legend unimpaired and unaltered from one generation to another . An incident communicated in prose , which ...
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