This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...filial piety of the sons of Sanchan, and their brotherly love; that mysterious Vapour, and that terrible blast of entrance, and the closing malediction by the Maiden, are all very notable towards the consummation of effect. As for the kissing of the champions in the pauses of the fight, I know of nothing in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...filial piety of the sons of Sanchan, and their brotherly love; that mysterious Vapour, and that terrible blast of entrance, and the closing malediction by the Maiden, are all very notable towards the consummation of effect. As for the kissing of the champions in the pauses of the fight, I know of nothing in the reaches of our human blood so marvellously striking and sweet; you have now made it immortal in song. However admirably expressed, the last stanza is an error in art. Surely you spoil the grand close, and the whole piece, by appending your own personality of interference as a commentator on the malediction. Might I not further say (with a peculiar smile) you make the preordained fulfilment of Malison a sublime apology for Irish Grub Street?' The sting in the tail of this fine judgment is deserved, and it is curious to observe that Ferguson has been similarly unlucky in 'The Welshmen of Tirawley' in this attempt to tag a comment on to the end of a tale which he has so nobly adorned. That magnificently savage lay should end with the ante-penultimate stanza. This tendency to act at times as a commentator on his own work and to present it at others in a too ponderously Latinised form are, with the careless, not to say bluff, disregard for verbal delicacies into which he now and again lapses, the only proclivities to which exception can be taken in Ferguson's technique. But his method is uniformly manly, and his occasional periods of majestic inspiration sweep our minor critical objections before them, as the blast from his Mananan's mantle swept the chieftain and his hound into the valley like leaves before the wind. We have taken Ferguson to our hearts as we take our best brother, cherishing his very ponderosities and carelessnesses as part...
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Fair. No Jacket. Ex-Library. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Rebound for library in heavy grey cloth with gilt print on the spine. In addition to the library markings and attachments, there are a very few light scattered soil spots, a very few pencil notations and a few pages that have the edges taped.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Title page missing. Publication date not stated. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 800grams, ISBN:
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