 The Celts, with their vehement reaction against the despotism of fact, with their sensuous nature, their manifold striving, their adverse destiny, their immense calamities, the Celts are the prime authors of this vein of piercing regret and passion, —...  Der Stil des Macphersonschen Ossian - Page 28by Walther Drechsler - 1904 - 82 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 880 pages
...living, has an eye for the genuine ore of ' poetry, and it is thus he describes the advent of Ossian. " The Celts are the prime authors of this vein of piercing regret and passion, this Titanic element in poetry. Make the part of what is forged, modern, tawdry, spurious in the book... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1866 - 826 pages
...Byron, — what other European poetry possesses that like the English, and where do we get it from 1 The Celts, with their vehement reaction against the...this vein of piercing regret and passion, of this Titanisrn in poetry. A famous book, Macpherson's Ossian, carried in the last century this vein like... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...Byron — what other European poetry possesses that like the English, and where do we get it from ? The Celts, with their vehement reaction against the...their manifold striving, their adverse destiny, their immeuse calamities, the Celts are the prime authors of this vein of piercing regret and passion, of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1867 - 214 pages
...Byron, — what other European poetry possesses that like the English, and where do we get it from ? The Celts, with their vehement reaction against the...regret and passion, — of this Titanism in poetry. A famous book, Macpherson's Ossian, carried in the last century this vein like a flood of lava through... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1867 - 218 pages
...Byron,—what other European poetry possesses that like the English, and where do we get it from ? The Celts, with their vehement reaction against the...prime authors of this vein of piercing regret and passion,—of this Titanism in poetry. A famous book, Macpherson's Ossian, carried in the last century... | |
 | Dublin University Magazine,A Literary and Political Journal - 1867 - 726 pages
...reader an idea of the rhythm ami assonance: — " Lemslia cethna bacías dirthach, Is cros cloche, 419 with their vehement reaction against the despotism...sensuous nature, their manifold striving, their adverse deetiny, their immense calamities, — the Celte are the prime authors of this piercing regret and... | |
 | John Stuart Stuart-Glennie - Scotland - 1869 - 184 pages
...Byron, 6 what other European poetry possesses that like the English, and where do we get it from ? The Celts .... are the prime authors of this vein...piercing regret and passion, of this Titanism in poetry. A famous book, Macpherson's Ossian, carried in the lasjt century this vein like a flood of lava through... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1871 - 542 pages
...living, has an eye for the genuine ore of poetry, and it is thus he describes the advent of Ossian. "The Celts are the prime authors of this vein of piercing regret and passion, this Titanic element in poetry. Make the part of what is forged, modern, tawdry, spurious in the book... | |
 | Theology - 1872 - 832 pages
...and traces the whole vein of piercing regret and passion in modern poetry — its Titanism — to " the Celts, with their vehement reaction against the...of fact, with their sensuous nature, their manifold strivings, their adverse destiny, their immense calamities." Now the Celtic tribes are various, and... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...these strains, belongs to Macpherson." Matthew Arnold, writing on the subject of Ossian, remarks — "The Celts are the prime authors of this vein of piercing regret and passion, this Titanic element in poetry. Make the part of what is forged, modern, tawdry, spurious in the book... | |
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