Lays from the Cimbric Lyre: With Various VersesW. Pickering, 1846 - Всего страниц: 271 |
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
ancient Aneirin Anglo-Saxon bard Behold blood brave breath bright Britain British brow Celt cherished child church countrie's cried crown Cymbeline dark death deep divine dread dream dwell earth English eyes fain fair faith fame fathers flame foes forlorn gazed gentle gloom glorie Goth grave GWYNEDD hand harp hast hear heard heart heaven heavenlie hill honour hope hour Hugh Pugh King LADY CHARLOTTE GUEST land light linger living lonelie Lord lyre Mabinogion manye Matthew of Westminster mightie mingled miserere Mizraim mountain mourn murmur Naiad nations ne'er night North Wales o'er ocean passionate emotion poem prayer pride prince race racter reader Saxon shame shore shrine sires sleep slumber smile song soul sound spirit strain strife sword tears tempest thee thine thou throng tone tread Twas wailing wandering wave ween Welsh Welsh language wild wind wrath
Популярные отрывки
Стр. xxx - With regard to the manners of the Anglo-Saxons we can say little, but that they were in general a rude uncultivated people, ignorant of letters, unskilled in the mechanical arts, untamed to submission under law and government, addicted to intemperance, riot, and disorder.
Стр. xxxix - The world is full of renunciations and apprenticeships, and this is thine ; thou must pass for a fool and a churl for a long season. This is the screen and sheath in which Pan has protected his well-beloved flower, and thou shalt be known only to thine own, and they shall console thee with tenderest love.
Стр. 239 - To make his wonne, low underneath the ground, In a deep delve, far from the view of day ; That of no living wight he mote be found, Whenso he counseled, with his sprites encompass'd round.
Стр. xxxix - ... hath your Court or Council, for the present, more noble ornaments or better aids ? I am glad to see it, and to speak it ; and though the nation be said to be unconquered, and most loving liberty, yet it was never mutinous, and please your majesty, but stout, valiant, courteous, hospitable, temperate, ingenious, capable of all good arts, most lovingly constant, charitable, great antiquaries, religious preservers of their gentry and genealogy, as they are zealous and knowing in religion.
Стр. xxxix - Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say, ' It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until, at last, rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own ; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
Стр. 252 - THOUGH for no other cause, yet for this ; that posterity may know we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream, there shall be for men's information extant thus much concerning the present state of the Church of God established amongst us, and their careful endeavour which would have upheld the same.
Стр. xxxi - ... amusements adequate to its fierce temper. The sound that summoned the German to arms was grateful to his ear. It roused him from his uncomfortable lethargy, gave him an active pursuit, and by strong exercise of the body, and violent emotions of the mind, restored him to a more lively sense of his existence. In the dull intervals of peace these barbarians were immoderately addicted to deep gaming and excessive drinking ; both of which, by different means, the one by inflaming their passions, the...
Стр. xxxix - From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear, his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewildered laid, And back recoiled, he knew not why, Even at the sound himself had made.
Стр. xxxix - ... VOL. I.— L 21 afterward many occasions to discover that his patriotic prejudices, if they may so be called, formed the very weakness of a mind, which, on other points, was naturally shrewd ; and that even on those subjects, he could bring many a specious argument to bear with great seeming force. In short, he was the very Don Quixote of nationality ; and his powers of lauding his beloved country seemed perfectly inexhaustible. " Do not suppose, my dear sir," he proceeded, " that my eyes are...
Стр. xxx - Anglo-Saxons we can say little, but that they were in general a rude uncultivated people, ignorant of letters, unskilled in the mechanical arts, untamed to submission under law and government, addicted to intemperance, riot, and disorder. Their best quality was their military courage, which yet was not supported by discipline or conduct. Their want of fidelity to the prince, or to any trust reposed in them, 300 appears strongly in the history of their later period ; and their want of humanity in...