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Excerpt from The Celtic Magazine; A Monthly Periodical, Vol. 1: Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folklore, Tradition, and the Social and Material Interest of the Celt at Home and Abroad
We might add to the names ofthose authors who appreciated Ossian, Lord Byron, who imitates him in his Hours of Idleness and are'forced to include among his detractors, Lord Brougham, who, in his review of these early efforts, says clumsily, that he won't criticise it lest he should be attacking Macpherson himself, with whose own stuff he was but im perfectly acquainted, to which Lord Byron rejoins, that (alluding to Lord Byron being a minor) he would have said a much cleverer and severer thing had he quoted Dr Johnson's sarcasm, that many men, many wo men, and many children could write as well as Ossian.
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