 | Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland - 1805 - 532 páginas
...extremely reluctant and averse to comply with my request, saying, that no translation of his could do justice to the spirit and force of the original...was not till after much and repeated importunity on .?y part, and representing to him the injustice he would do to his native country by keeping concealed... | |
 | Patrick Graham - 1807 - 512 páginas
...reluc" tant and averse to comply with his request; " saying, that no translation could do jus" tice to the spirit and force of the original; " and that, besides injuring them by transla" tion, he apprehended, that they would be " very ill .relished by the public, as so very "... | |
 | James Browne - 1838 - 558 páginas
...informs us that Macpherson was extremely reluctant and averse to comply with his request, saying, that no translation of his coidd do justice to the spirit...besides injuring them by translation, he apprehended that they would be very ill relished by the public as being so different from the strain of modern... | |
 | James Browne - 1843 - 546 páginas
...extremely reluctant and averse to comply with his request, saying, that no translation of his could do justice to the spirit and force of the original...besides injuring them by translation, he apprehended that they would be very ill relished by the public as being so different from the strain of modern... | |
 | William Anderson - 1863 - 800 páginas
...Macpherson was extremely reluctant to comply with his request, saying that no translation of his could do justice to the spirit and force of the original, and that they were so different from the style of modern poetiy that he was afraid they would not take with... | |
 | John M'Pherson - 1873 - 20 páginas
...undertake this task, declaring, what every Highlander knows to be true, that " no translation of his could do justice to the spirit and force of the original;...besides injuring them by translation, he apprehended that they would be very ill relished by the public, as being so very different from the strain of modern... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - 1894 - 350 páginas
...was e^remel^ relug^t and averse to complying witt my request, saying that no translation of his could do justice to the spirit and force of the original...besides injuring them by translation, he apprehended that they would be very ill relished by the public, as so very different from the strain of modern... | |
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... the spirit and force of the original ; and that, besides injuring them by translation, he apprehended they would be very ill /relished by the public as so very different from the strain of modern ideas, and of modern, connected, and polished poetry. 