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the publication of his fragments, some literary gentlemen
In Edinburgh subscribed a sum of money to enable him to
make a journey to the western Highlands and island, for
the purpose of collecting those larger poems, which he
thought proper to call Epic, and which he informed the
gentlemen he had reason to believe existed there. This
journey afforded him an opportunity also of gaining a more
thorough acquaintance with those expressions in the language
which were daily becoming obsolete; the purest
Gaelic, or what the Highlanders call fine Gaelic, being
spoken in some of the islands. This fine Gaelic does not
by any means signify a different dialect in the language,
but a more elevated style, enriched and varied by a kind of
poetical phraseology. The superior classes of every community
think more, converse more, and have a more elegant
manner of expressing their sentiments, than those
whose attention is necessarily engaged by their urgent
wants. In the isles gentlemen still conversed in Gaelic,
and this style was still familiar. It may be easily conceived
how soon a language will be debased, when it ceases
to be used but by the mere vulgar. On this excursion our
Translator was accompanied by a person said to be one of
the best Gaelic scholars of his time, who, however, was
no otherwise useful to him than as a linguist, being destitute
of taste, and even ordinary poetical knowledge, but a
man of stubborn integrity, who could have no bias; for
he liked his fellow-traveller better than any thing, except
truth. From this worthy and venerable person the principal
information here communicated was derived. The
Object Description
| Title | Poems on Various Subjects |
| Creator | Anne MacVicar Grant |
| Date | 1803 |
| Physical Description | 10, 17-447 p.; 24 cm. |
| Publisher | Edinburgh: Printed for the author by J. Moir... : Sold by Longman and Rees... and J. Hatchard... London: by Mundell and Son, Manners and Miller, and Arch. Constable, Edinburgh... [and 5 others], 1803. |
| Resource Type | Text |
| Call Number | PR4728.G113 P6 |
| Identifier | pr4728_g113_p6 |
| Language | English |
| Custodian | Baylor University - Armstrong Browning Library |
| Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
| Digital Collection | 19th Century Women Poets Collection |
| Note | "List of subscribers": p. 415-447. |
| Format | Books |
Description
| Title | Poems on various subjects - Page 359 |
| Resource Type | Text |
| Rights | http://www.baylor.edu/lib/digitization/digitalrights |
| Digital Collection | 19th Century Women Poets Collection |
| Full Text | 363 the publication of his fragments, some literary gentlemen In Edinburgh subscribed a sum of money to enable him to make a journey to the western Highlands and island, for the purpose of collecting those larger poems, which he thought proper to call Epic, and which he informed the gentlemen he had reason to believe existed there. This journey afforded him an opportunity also of gaining a more thorough acquaintance with those expressions in the language which were daily becoming obsolete; the purest Gaelic, or what the Highlanders call fine Gaelic, being spoken in some of the islands. This fine Gaelic does not by any means signify a different dialect in the language, but a more elevated style, enriched and varied by a kind of poetical phraseology. The superior classes of every community think more, converse more, and have a more elegant manner of expressing their sentiments, than those whose attention is necessarily engaged by their urgent wants. In the isles gentlemen still conversed in Gaelic, and this style was still familiar. It may be easily conceived how soon a language will be debased, when it ceases to be used but by the mere vulgar. On this excursion our Translator was accompanied by a person said to be one of the best Gaelic scholars of his time, who, however, was no otherwise useful to him than as a linguist, being destitute of taste, and even ordinary poetical knowledge, but a man of stubborn integrity, who could have no bias; for he liked his fellow-traveller better than any thing, except truth. From this worthy and venerable person the principal information here communicated was derived. The |
| Format | Books |
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