The Cambro-Briton, Volume 3J. Limbird., 1821 - Wales |
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... centuries , from the first introduction of Christianity among them . We have , therefore , deemed it advisable to recommend it to the attention of our readers , by publishing a translation of it , in a condensed form , divested of most ...
... centuries , from the first introduction of Christianity among them . We have , therefore , deemed it advisable to recommend it to the attention of our readers , by publishing a translation of it , in a condensed form , divested of most ...
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... century , as printed in the Archaiology of Wales , vol . iii . p . 383. The manuscript is in the library of the Welsh school , in London . You will observe , that the translation is almost a literal one , and it is sent without any ...
... century , as printed in the Archaiology of Wales , vol . iii . p . 383. The manuscript is in the library of the Welsh school , in London . You will observe , that the translation is almost a literal one , and it is sent without any ...
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... century . - ED . This halting of the armament at the river Gweryd is a singular proof of the military etiquette of the ancient Britons , and of which we are not aware that any other memorial is in existence . - ED . § The original words ...
... century . - ED . This halting of the armament at the river Gweryd is a singular proof of the military etiquette of the ancient Britons , and of which we are not aware that any other memorial is in existence . - ED . § The original words ...
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... centuries ago , lived this Cam- brian hero , dispensing numerous blessings amongst his happy and devoted tenantry ; and probably with no loftier wishes than those of contributing to the comfort and happiness of his de- pendants . But he ...
... centuries ago , lived this Cam- brian hero , dispensing numerous blessings amongst his happy and devoted tenantry ; and probably with no loftier wishes than those of contributing to the comfort and happiness of his de- pendants . But he ...
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... century , and have before formed the theme of the muse both in England and Wales . Ed . + This word is now pronounced " Harden , " but the pronunciation , here adopted , is perhaps more poetical . - ED . Stones and arrows fly around ...
... century , and have before formed the theme of the muse both in England and Wales . Ed . + This word is now pronounced " Harden , " but the pronunciation , here adopted , is perhaps more poetical . - ED . Stones and arrows fly around ...
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Page 308 - Where now thy might which all those kings subdued? No martial myriads muster in thy gate; No suppliant nations in thy Temple wait; No...
Page 446 - For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption : But he whom God raised again saw no corruption.
Page 308 - No prophet bards, thy glittering courts among, Wake the full lyre, and swell the tide of song : But lawless force, and meagre want are there, And the quick-darting eye of restless fear, While cold oblivion, 'mid thy ruins laid, Folds his dank wing beneath the ivy shade.
Page 107 - How best the mighty work he might begin Of Saviour to mankind, and which way first Publish his god-like office now mature...
Page 425 - LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM. OH ! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove ; When my dream of life from morn till night Was love, still love. New hope may bloom, And days may come Of milder, calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream : No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Page 309 - If at Thy name the waves forgot their force, And refluent Jordan sought his trembling source; If at Thy Name like sheep the mountains fled, And haughty Sirion...
Page 236 - For representing it, they raise an earthen amphitheatre in some open field, having the diameter of its enclosed plain some 40 or 50 foot. The country people flock from all sides, many miles ofF, to hear and see it ; for they have therein devils and devices to delight as well the eye as the ear...
Page 123 - Oh, wherefore should ill ever flow from ill, And pain still keener pain for ever breed ? We all are brethren — even the slaves who kill For hire are men; and to avenge misdeed On the misdoer doth but Misery feed With her own broken heart!
Page 107 - With solitude, till, far from track of men, Thought following thought, and step by step led on, He enter'd now the bordering desert wild...
Page 347 - Davy) request that all gifts of the like nature due to them be returned to the young woman on the said day, and will...