Cambrian and Caledonian Quarterly Magazine and Celtic Repertory, Volume 5proprietors, 1833 |
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... mother , " has probably been taken ; " modryb " being used as a term of respect to aged ladies . Eil , in " Eilfani , " is the radix of the Latin alius , and the English else . Golwg Dduw ar adyn . The eye of God is Welsh Proverbs . 15.
... mother , " has probably been taken ; " modryb " being used as a term of respect to aged ladies . Eil , in " Eilfani , " is the radix of the Latin alius , and the English else . Golwg Dduw ar adyn . The eye of God is Welsh Proverbs . 15.
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... king , who entertained the lady honourably , sending her brother to be kept prisoner in Corfe castle . " Llwyd's History . Eleanor of Castile , wife of Edward I. None answered . In a niche apart , All cold 20 THE BRIDAL OF LLEWELYN.* ...
... king , who entertained the lady honourably , sending her brother to be kept prisoner in Corfe castle . " Llwyd's History . Eleanor of Castile , wife of Edward I. None answered . In a niche apart , All cold 20 THE BRIDAL OF LLEWELYN.* ...
Page 68
... lady learnt the witchery from an ancient sibyl who had departed beyond the pale of superstition and knavery more than half a century before . - These were her words . " Ye man knaw that some nene and twanty years ago , we had mickle ...
... lady learnt the witchery from an ancient sibyl who had departed beyond the pale of superstition and knavery more than half a century before . - These were her words . " Ye man knaw that some nene and twanty years ago , we had mickle ...
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... Lady Glenlealy , who put it into a necklace , and refused £ 80 for it from the Duchess of Ormond . In his tour , in Scotland , our illustrous countryman , Pennant , ( of whom we may well be proud , ) also adds , that there existed a ...
... Lady Glenlealy , who put it into a necklace , and refused £ 80 for it from the Duchess of Ormond . In his tour , in Scotland , our illustrous countryman , Pennant , ( of whom we may well be proud , ) also adds , that there existed a ...
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... lady of the castle . Then there were the esquire carver , " l'Ecuyer Tranchant ; " the esquire pantler , " Ecuyer Pannetier ; " and the esquire cupbearer , " l'Ecuyer Echanson , ” — all of them so many different forms of domesticity ...
... lady of the castle . Then there were the esquire carver , " l'Ecuyer Tranchant ; " the esquire pantler , " Ecuyer Pannetier ; " and the esquire cupbearer , " l'Ecuyer Echanson , ” — all of them so many different forms of domesticity ...
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ac yn ancient Anglesey appear arms bards Beaumaris beautiful brenin British Britons Caledonian called Cambrian Cambrian Quarterly Carausius Cardiganshire castle Celtic Celts Ceridwen chief child church clan Coirshugle Cywydd daughter David death Denbighshire Dunalbion Edward eldest Elfin Elphin English eyes father feel Flintshire friends Gaël Gaelic gentlemen Glamorganshire hand harp heart Highlanders hills honour horse Hugh hyny iddo Iolo Goch John Jones king labour lady land language late living Llanwrtyd Lonan London Lord Merionethshire mewn mind Montgomeryshire mountain native nature never night noble o'er oedd old borough Owen parish Pembrokeshire persons poor possession present prince river rock Roman Scotland South Wales spirit stone Taliesin thee thence thing Thomas thou tion Vaughan Vich Neil Wales Welsh Welsh language wife wild William word
Popular passages
Page 114 - How many thousand of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
Page 100 - Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
Page 381 - To die, to sleep; To sleep perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life...
Page 381 - ... tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them ? To die — to sleep...
Page 381 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. The pangs of despised love, the law's delay. The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear. To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death. The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not...
Page 114 - Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ?— Canst thou, O partial sleep...
Page 479 - Shoulder Belts, or any Part whatsoever of what peculiarly belongs to the Highland Garb; and that no Tartan, or party-coloured Plaid or Stuff shall be used for Great Coats, or for Upper Coats...
Page 114 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge. And in the visitation of the winds...
Page 370 - I have suffered hunger for the Son of the Virgin. I have been fostered in the land of the Deity, I have been teacher to all intelligences, I am able to instruct the whole universe. I shall be until the day of doom on the face of the earth ; And it is not known whether my body is flesh or fish. Then I was for nine months In the womb of the hag Ceridwen ; I was originally little Gwion, And at length I am Taliesin.
Page 129 - We have at last arrived at that critical period which I have long foreseen ; I mean that period which renders it necessary for us to determine whether we can or shall take the whole to ourselves.