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"The reader of The Seasons wonders that he never saw before what Thomson shows him, and that he never yet has felt what Thomson impresses." Ossian and "The Castle of Otranto." Two contemporary works proved a romantic influence out of all proportion to the worth of their subject matter.
Jack: "I think a sensible woman wouldn't be out of place in Atlas' schemes for the regeneration of humanity." Mrs. Jack: "No; but Egeria isn't a yes, she is, too; I can't deny it, but I don't believe she knows anything about the sweating system, and she adores Ossian and Fiona Macleod, so she probably won't appeal to Atlas in his present state, which, to my mind, is unnecessarily intense.
Peter Garrick and I met again, he was vehement on the subject of the Ossian controversy; observing, 'We do not know that there are any ancient Erse manuscripts; and we have no other reason to disbelieve that there are men with three heads, but that we do not know that there are any such men. He also was outrageous upon his supposition that my countrymen 'loved Scotland better than truth, saying, 'All of them, nay not all, but DROVES of them, would come up, and attest any thing for the honour of Scotland. He also persevered in his wild allegation, that he questioned if there was a tree between Edinburgh and the English border older than himself.
At length, having premised that the poem was a dialogue between the poet Oisin, or Ossian, and Patrick, the tutelar Saint of Ireland, and that it was difficult, if not impossible, to render the exquisite felicity of the first two or three lines, he said the sense was to this purpose: "Patrick the psalm-singer, Since you will not listen to one of my stories, Though you never heard it before, I am sorry to tell you You are little better than an ass"
By all the gods, he of the laconic garment, the "thousand hill man," would have been careering on a cloud after his "freen" Ossian, with the moon shining through him, within that very hour. Still I would not have bothered you; but I know his Most Gracious Majesty King William, God bless him! "Poo, nonsense." Indeed!
Nobody could say why some of Ossian Popham's gifts of mind and conversation had not descended to his children, but though the son was not really stupid at practical work, Lallie Joy was in a perpetual state of coma.
At first it seemed necessary, or at least convenient and desirable, and I did not think much about it. But lately it has been continually on my mind that we were leading a cheerless existence, and I am determined to arrange matters differently." Mrs. Carey remembered Ossian Popham's description of Mrs.
Lewis Rand came out into the sunlight with "old Coke" and Locke, Plutarch and Ossian, under his arm, and in his soul I know not what ardour of hero-worship, what surging resolve and aspiration. Young Mocket, at his elbow, regarded him with something like awe. "That was Mr. Jefferson," he said. "He knows General Washington and Marquis Lafayette and Doctor Franklin.
It is an exception to be made with respect to the northernmost part of the island, that superstition did there partake of this higher character. It seems to have had somewhat of the tone imitated, but in a softer mode, in the poetry, denominated of Ossian.
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