 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1822 - 436 pages
...Gaelic Language, a few years ago translated the first four book? of Honier'.:' . . \ VOL. I. d westy of Mac Pherson and his associates has raised on that...translation he read, in the neighbourhood of Fort-William, te groups of men and women of the verv lowest class, shepherds and mechanics, who had never learnt... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...learned and excellent friend, the late Mr. Ewen M'I<auchlan, translated the first four books of Homer's Iliad into Gaelic verse. This translation he read,...neighbourhood of FortWilliam, to groups of men and «omen of the very lowest class, shepherds and mechanics, who had never learnt the power of letters.... | |
 | Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1874 - 786 pages
...your lordship says." HOMER IN GAELIC. Mr Ewen M'Lauchlan translated the first four books of Homer's Iliad into Gaelic verse. This translation he read...mechanics, who had never learnt the power of letters, and who were as ignorant of who Homer was as they were of the language he wrote in. They listened to... | |
 | Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1875 - 378 pages
...your lordship says. " HOMER IN GAELIC. Mr Ewen M 'Lauchlan translated the first four books of Homer's Iliad into Gaelic verse. This translation he read in the neighbourhood of Fort- William, to groups of men and women of the very lowest class — shepherds and mechanics, who... | |
 | Edward Burt - Highlands (Scotland) - 1876 - 384 pages
...preparing a Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, a few years ago translated the first four books of Homer's Iliad into Gaelic verse. This translation he read, in the neighbourhood of Fort- William, to groups of men and women of the very lowest class, shepherds and mechanics, who had... | |
 | Edward Burt - 1876 - 382 pages
...preparing a Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, a few years ago translated the first four books of Homer's Iliad into Gaelic verse. This translation he read, in the neighbourhood of Fort- William, to groups of men and women of the very lowest class, shepherds and mechanics, who had... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1924 - 440 pages
...which he read at Fort- William to a crowd of the very lowest class of the people who had never learned the power of letters. " They listened to him with...beauties of the composition had their full effect, and thev made sruch remarks as would have put to shame the comments of better instructed critics." " We... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1924 - 438 pages
...he read at Fort- William to< .a crowd of the very lowest class of the people who had never learned the power of letters. " They listened to him with...beauties of the composition had their full effect, and they made such remarks as would have put to shame the comments of better instructed critics." " We... | |
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Do you want to hae onyappointit?" "No," replied Margaret, "I only want an interpreter to enable me to understand what your lordship says." HOMER IN GAELIC. Mr Ewen M'Lauchlan translated the first four books of Homer's Iliad into Gaelic verse. This translation... 