Excerpt from Glen Desseray and Other Poems: Lyrical and Elegiac For the notes, glossarial and illustrative, I am mainly indebted to the Rev. T. Sinton, Minister of Glengarry, .and to Mr. Bayne of Helensburgh. My wish, at first, was to ask Mr. Sinton for a transliteration into English sounds of the many Gaelic place-names which occur. But a few specimens proved that this would be well-nigh practically impossible in the case of languages differing so deeply in their intonation. And it may be feared that the ignorant ...
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Excerpt from Glen Desseray and Other Poems: Lyrical and Elegiac For the notes, glossarial and illustrative, I am mainly indebted to the Rev. T. Sinton, Minister of Glengarry, .and to Mr. Bayne of Helensburgh. My wish, at first, was to ask Mr. Sinton for a transliteration into English sounds of the many Gaelic place-names which occur. But a few specimens proved that this would be well-nigh practically impossible in the case of languages differing so deeply in their intonation. And it may be feared that the ignorant indifference, descending sometimes into stupid hostility, with which the beautiful Celtic dialects yet surviving in our islands are regarded by almost all except those to whom they are mother-tongues, would have rendered translation of the sound and the significance of these relics of the past an almost useless and un valued labour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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