IRISH MINSTRELSY. BY WILLIAM HAMILTON DRUMMOND, D.D., M.R.I.A. "Sweet Ossian who with thee can vie, In all the arts of minstrelsy? What hand like thine such music bring, Or with such magic power control * DUBLIN: HODGES AND SMITH, GRAFTON-STREET, BOOKSELLERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. MDCCCLII. UNIV. OF ΤΟ THE REV. RICHARD MACDONNELL, D. D., PROVOST OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, AND M.R.I.A. REV. SIR, To you this small volume is inscribed by the Author, to testify the high estimation in which he holds your character, not merely as occupying the highly honourable and well-merited station of Provost of the University of Dublin, of which it can be no flattery to say that you are its decus et tutamen, but as a friend and encourager of the general literature of your country. When you sat in the Council of the Royal Irish Academy as one of their officers, you evinced a genuine patriotic desire to promote the cultivation of letters in Ireland, not only by the general interest you took in the literary, as well as in the scientific and antiquarian researches of that learned society, but by proposing as the subject of prize essays 386983 PB 1423 D8 1852. MAIN |