 | Thomas Gray - 1884 - 432 pągines
...— have been handed down from father to son — and are of an age beyond all memory and tradition. Adam Smith, the celebrated Professor in Glasgow, told...the Argyleshire militia repeated to him all those which Mr. Macpherson has translated, and many more of equal beauty. Major Mackay (Lord Rae's brother)... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 pągines
...been handed down from father to son, and are of an age beyond all memory and tradition. Adam Smith told me that the Piper of the Argyleshire militia repeated to him all those which Mr. Macpherson had translated. We have set about a subscription of a guinea or two guineas apiece,... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - 1894 - 350 pągines
...offices in a chieftain's family, and these two characters are frequently united in the same person. Adam Smith, the celebrated professor in Glasgow, told...Macpherson has translated, and many more of equal beauty. Major' Mackay, Lord Eeay's brother, also told me that he remembers them perfectly, as also did the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1904 - 362 pągines
...from father to son — and are of an age beyond all memory and tradition. Adam Smith, the celebrated l Professor in Glasgow, told me that the piper of the Argyleshire militia repeated to him all those which Mr. Macpherson has translated, and many more of equal beauty. Major Mackay (Lord Rae's brother)... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1908 - 308 pągines
...offices in a chieftain's family, and these two characters are frequently united in the same person. Adam Smith, the celebrated Professor in Glasgow, told...Macpherson has translated, and many more of equal beauty. Major Mackay, Lord Eeay's brother, also told me that he remembers them perfectly; as likewise did the... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1911 - 446 pągines
...— have been handed down from father to son — and are of an age beyond all memory and tradition. Adam Smith, the celebrated Professor in Glasgow, told...the Argyleshire militia repeated to him all those which Mr. Macpherson has translated, and many more of equal beauty. Major Mackay (Lord Rae's brother)... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pągines
...Highlands, have been handed down from father to son, and are of an age beyond all memory and tradition. Perhaps at earlier Crecy, or Poictiers. Of vast circumference and gloom profound 10 of those which Mr. Macpherson had translated, and many more of equal beauty. Major Mackay (Lord Rae's... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1925 - 450 pągines
...— have been handed down from father to son — and are of an age beyond all memory and tradition. Adam Smith, the celebrated Professor in Glasgow, told...the Argyleshire militia repeated to him all those which Mr. Macpherson has translated, and many more of equal beauty. Major Mackay (Lord Rae's brother)... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1987 - 500 pągines
...of the Argyleshire Militia' whom David Hume mentioned to Lord Hailes as having 'repeated to [Smith] all those poems which Mr Macpherson has translated, and many more of equal beauty' (HL i. 329). 92. To DAVID HUME Address: To David Hume Esqr at Miss Elliots, Lisle Street, Leicester... | |
 | Roger Fiske - 1983 - 256 pągines
...than the wars of Troy among the Greek poets. This custom is not even yet altogether abolished . . . Adam Smith, the celebrated professor in Glasgow, told...repeated to him all those poems which Mr Macpherson had translated and many more of equal beauty . . . We have therefore set about a subscription of a... | |
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Adam Smith, the celebrated Professor in Glasgow, told me that the piper of the Argyleshire militia repeated to him all those which Mr. Macpherson has translated, and many more of equal beauty. 
