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Another difficulty (which is, however, purely mechanical) arises from the irregular structure of many of those airs, and the lawless kind of metre which it will in consequence be necessary to adapt to them. In these instances, the Poet must write, not to the eye, but to the ear; and must be content to have his verses of that description which Cicero mentions, _'Quos si cantu spoliaveris nuda remanebit oratio.'_ That beautiful Air, 'The Twisting of the Rope,' which has all the romantic character of the Swiss _Ranz des Vaches_, is one of those wild and sentimental rakes which it will not be very easy to tie down in sober wedlock with Poetry. However, notwithstanding all these difficulties, and the very moderate portion of talent which I can bring to surmount them, the design appears to me so truly National, that I shall feel much pleasure in giving it all the assistance in my power.
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to be forwarded immediately--and this was probably the prefatory letter. For Mr. Andrew Gibson's researches have discovered in the _Belfast Commercial Chronicle_ of May 28, 1807, a paragraph relating to Power's projected
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Collection of the best Original Irish Melodies, which concludes by citing a portion of Moore's prefatory letter, and the date affixed is
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Leicestershire, _April_ 1807.
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and another, on April 8th, 1808, as
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The latter advertisement invited subscribers for