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- "To understand many words it is only necessary to pronounce them aloud; and the meaning, which is obscured by the spelling, will be evident from the found. W is often used for u and for v : h is uselessly introduced, as yhe for ye, &c ." #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
- "The chief obstacle in perusing this work arises from the orthography, which is ſo irregular that no glossary can pretend to explain every disguised word." --- John Barbour's THE BRUCE, p. 181, ed. Pinkerton (1790) #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
- "Ennius we should worship as we do groves whose age has made them sacred, and whose huge and ancient trees have come to have more sanctity about them than beauty." #Scots #literature #history #epic #Bruce
- "Perhaps the editor may be accused of nationality, when he says that, taking the total merits of this work together, he prefers it to the early exertions of even the Italian muse, to the melancholy sublimity of Dante, and the amorous quaintness of Petrarca" #Scots #literature #history #epic
- " ... the oldest monument of the Scotish [sic] language. A monument which may well bear company with the best early poetry which any modern country can boast." p. x --- Preface, John Barbour's THE BRUCE #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
- John Barbour's THE BRUCE: "the poem now presented to the reader for the first time, in it's genuine ancient dress, has already gone thro' about twenty editions in Scotland since the year 1616" #Scots #Scotland #literature #history #epic #archaic
- Beyond the Landscape I finally released my brand new tutorial starting a new series of processing videos dedicated to fantasy and cinematic editing www.enricofossati/instruction #landscapephotography #photoshop #editing #tutorial #dark #moody #dolomites #epic #processing #lotr
