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See also Kennedy, p. 240, and "F. L. Record," vol. ii. p. 15, where the late Mr. H. C. Coote quotes the "Transactions of the Ossianic Society." Comparetti, vol. i. p. 212. An English version is given by Mr. Coote, "F. L. Record," vol. ii. p. 12. Madame D'Aulnoy gives a similar story in her "Histoire d'Hypolite, Comte de Douglas," which seems to be the original of a tale in verse quoted by Mr.
Madame la Duchesse de Langeais says they give a woman something vague, Ossianic, and very high-bred." "Very good; send them to me at once." Then the lady turned quickly toward the rue de Menars, and entered her own house.
I must write it down from dictation, and translate it, as Walter Scott used to do with the old wives' ballads in Scotland." "I have no doubt it would be quite Ossianic equal to any of the abusive scenes in Homer. But, my dear Harding, how are you? You are come to eat your Christmas dinner with us, I hope?" "That same thing, Major," answered the new comer. "Troubridge and Stockbridge, how are you?
Madame la Duchesse de Langeais says they give a woman something vague, Ossianic, and very high-bred." "Very good; send them to me at once." Then the lady turned quickly toward the rue de Menars, and entered her own house.
We have had many advantages here as elsewhere; for kind Dr. La Touche, Lady Killbally, and Mrs. Colquhoun follow us with letters, and wherever there is an unusual personage in a district we are commended to his or her care. Sometimes it is one of the 'grand quality, and often it is an Ossianic sort of person like Shaun O'Grady, who lives in a little whitewashed cabin, and who has, like Mr.
This imprisonment transports me to Shetland, to Spitzbergen, to Norway, to the Ossianic countries of mist, where man, thrown back upon himself, feels his heart beat more quickly and his thought expand more freely so long, at least, as he is not frozen and congealed by cold. Fog has certainly a poetry of its own a grace, a dreamy charm.
One memorable incident of literary history the Ossianic outbreak of 1760 aided powerfully though indirectly in the revival of the study of the ancient Celtic history of Scotland and Ireland.
I am not going to criticize Macpherson's Ossian here. Make the part of what is forged, modern, tawdry, spurious, in the book, as large as you please; strip Scotland, if you like, of every feather of borrowed plumes which on the strength of Macpherson's Ossian she may have stolen from that vetus et major Scotia, the true home of the Ossianic poetry, Ireland; I make no objection.
His victories are celebrated in countless meles or unwritten songs, which are said to be marked by real poetic feeling and simplicity, and to resemble the Ossianic poems in majesty and melancholy. He founded the dynasty which for seventy years has stood as firmly, and exercised its functions for the welfare of the people on the whole as efficiently, as any other government.
Imagine a pair of great dark eyes, a magnificently moulded hand, a shapely foot. There was a fiery energy in her movements; the Marquis de Ronquerolles had called her "a thoroughbred," "a pure pedigree," these figures of speech have replaced the "heavenly angel" and Ossianic nomenclature; the old mythology of love is extinct, doomed to perish by modern dandyism. But for Rastignac, Mme.
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