Transactions, Volume 22The Society, 1900 List of members in each vol. |
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Transactions, Volume 27 Gaelic Society of Inverness,Inverness Gaelic Society Affichage du livre entier - 1915 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
agus Alastair Alex Alexander Baillie Badenoch ballads Barcaldine bard bha iad bhiodh bhith bith Blair brother Cameron Campbell of Barcaldine Castle Celtic century ceud Cha n eil chaidh Chief chuir clan Cleadale daoine daughter death Dewar dheanamh dhiubh dhomh ditto ditto ditto Donald duine Dunain Duncan Edinburgh Eigg English féin Féinne fhalbh fhein fhuair Fingal Finn Fraser gach gille Glenure Grulin gu'm gu'n robh Highland Inverness Ireland Irish island Isles James John Campbell King Kingussie lands latha leam letter Loch Tay Lochaber Lord Glenorchy Macdonald Mackay Mackenzie Mackintosh Macleod Macpherson Mhic mòr mu'n Ossian Perthshire poems Portree Rannoch riamh Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Gaelic sibh sinn sìthichean Skye sound Strathtay Temora thuit Tormoid uair vowel William Baillie words
Fréquemment cités
Page 70 - Monday for wealth ; Tuesday for health ; Wednesday the best day of all ; Thursday for crosses ; Friday for losses ; Saturday no luck at all.
Page 193 - That would not be a religious act,' said her people. But they were murderously assailed. At this time the cleric was at mass. ' Let us have respite till mass is ended,' said Donnan. ' Thou shalt have it,' said they. And when it was over, they were slain every one of them...
Page 263 - There is a design on foot to print the originals as soon as the translator shall have time to transcribe them for the press ; and if this publication shall not take place, copies will then be deposited in one of the public libraries, to prevent so ancient a monument of genius from being lost.
Page 293 - And great is the blindness and darkness of sin and ignorance and of understanding among composers and writers and supporters of the Gaelic, in that they prefer and practise the framing of vain, hurtful, lying, earthly stories about the Tuath de...
Page 258 - The sons of future years shall pass away. Another race shall arise. The people are like the waves of ocean: like the leaves of woody Morven, they pass away in the rustling blast, and other leaves lift their green heads on high.
Page 193 - With the festival of Peter the Deacon To glorious martyrdom ascended, With his clerics, of pure lives, Donnan of cold Eig." " Donnan of Eig, ie, Eig is the name of an island which is in Alba, and in it Donnan is [commemorated] ; or, in Catt ; ' et ibi Donnan sanctus cum sua familia obiit, id est LII.
Page 52 - The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord, and thou givest them meat in due season.
Page 258 - Did thy beauty last, 0 Ryno ? Stood the strength of car-borne Oscar ! Fingal himself departed ! The halls of his fathers forgot his steps. Shalt thou then remain, thou aged bard, when the mighty have failed ? But my fame shall remain, and grow like the oak of Morven ; which lifts its broad head to the storm, and rejoices in the course of the wind...
Page 299 - It is the shield of war, said Ronnar ! the spear of Cuthullin, said Lugar ! son of the sea put on thy arms ! Calmar, lift thy sounding steel! Puno! dreadful hero, arise! Cairbar from thy red tree of Cromla ! Bend thy knee, O Eth ! descend from the streams of Lena. Ca-olt stretch thy side as thou movest along the whistling heath of Mora...
Page 262 - D. Campbell, 1862; JF Campbell. 1862; WF Skene, 1862 ; E. Waag, 1863 ; Th. Pattison, 1866 : Arch. M'Neil, 1868 ; A. Ebrard, 1868-70 ; Arch. Clerk, 1870 ; PH Waddell, 1875 ; J. St. Blackie, 1876 ; CS Jerram, 1876 ; D. Mackinnon, 1877 ; Shairp, 1880 ; Ch. Stewart, 1884 ; Alex. Macbain, 1884. The many translators of " Ossian" who seem by this to be convinced of its genuineness I have not mentioned in the above list.