TAILIEUCHUNG - A Pastoral Romance From the Ancient Britis

Tham khảo sách 'a pastoral romance from the ancient britis', giáo dục - đào tạo, cao đẳng - đại học phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | IMOGEN A Pastoral Romance From the Ancient British By WILLIAM GODWIN Preface By WILLIAM GODWIN The following performance as the title imports was originally composed in the Welch language. Its style is elegant and pure. And if the translator has not as many of his brethren have done suffered the spirit of the original totally to evaporate he apprehends it will be found to contain much novelty of conception much classical taste and great spirit and beauty in the execution. It appears under the name of Cadwallo an ancient bard who probably lived at least one hundred years before the commencement of our common era. The manners of the primitive times seem to be perfectly understood by the author and are described with the air of a man who was in the utmost degree familiar with them. It is impossible to discover in any part of it the slightest trace of Christianity. And we believe it will not be disputed that in a country so pious as that of Wales it would have been next to impossible for the poet though ever so much upon his guard to avoid all allusion to the system of revelation. On the contrary every thing is Pagan and in perfect conformity with the theology we are taught to believe prevailed at that time. These reasons had induced us to admit for a long time that it was perfectly genuine and justly ascribed to the amiable Druid. With respect to the difficulty in regard to the preservation of so long a work for many centuries by the mere force of memory the translator together with the rest of the world had already got over that objection in the case of the celebrated Poems of Ossian. And if he be not blinded by that partiality which the midwife is apt to conceive for the productions that she is the instrument of bringing into the world the Pastoral Romance contains as much originality as much poetical beauty and is as happily calculated to make a deep impression upon the memory as either Fingal or Temora. The first thing that led us to doubt its authenticity was the

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