...those who have written their imitations with the preconceived purpose of passing them for ancient. There is no small degree of cant in the violent invectives...which impostors of this nature have been assailed. In fact, the case of each is special, and ought to be separately considered, according to its own circumstances....

...those who have written their imitations with the preconceived purpose of passing them for ancient. There is no small degree of cant In the violent invectives...which impostors of this nature have been assailed. In fact, the case of each is special, and ought to be separately considered according to its own circumstances....

...those who have written their imitations with the preconceived purpose of passing them for ancient. There is no small degree of cant in the violent invectives...which impostors of this nature have been assailed. In fact, the case of each is special, and ought to be separately considered, according to its own circumstances....

...imitations of ancient poetry with the purpose of passing them off for ancient, Scott wrote thus : ' There is no small degree of cant in the violent invectives...of this nature have been assailed. ... If a young, perhaps a female author chooses to circulate a beautiful poem, we will suppose that of " Hardyknute,"...

...Imitations of the Ancient Ballads," and spoke very leniently of imitations passed off as authentic. ' ' There is no small degree of cant in the violent invectives...which impostors of this nature have been assailed." As to Hardy knute, the favourite poem of his infancy, "the first that I ever learned and the last that...

...practice is, perhaps, well expressed by Sir Walter Scott in the introduction to the Border Minstrelsy. "There is no small degree of cant in the violent invectives with which impostures of this nature have been assailed. If a young author wishes to circulate a beautiful poem...

...says Mr. Farrer, he would only have laughed. Sir Walter is quoted in Mr. Farrer's book as writing: "There is no small degree of cant in the violent invectives with which • Mr. Lucas's book-dealer, Mr. Bemerton, in "Over Bemerton's," collected literary forgeries, and...

...alone in resorting to imputationist theory in order to trouble-shoot accusations of literary forgery. 'If a young author wishes to circulate a beautiful poem under the guise of antiquity', Scott was to write in his 1833 edition of Border Minstrelsy, 'the public is surely more enriched by...