The life of king Arthur [ed. by J. Frank.]. |
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... daughter of Carádoc ( Caractacus ) , [ prince of the Silures , inhabitants of present South - Wales , " whom , " the author says , many perilous and many prosperous things , had exalted so high , that he far ex- celled the other ...
... daughter of Carádoc ( Caractacus ) , [ prince of the Silures , inhabitants of present South - Wales , " whom , " the author says , many perilous and many prosperous things , had exalted so high , that he far ex- celled the other ...
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... daughter lastly he himself being presented . The supplications of the rest were degenerate , out of fear but not Carádoc , either with a de- jected look or asking mercy with words . When he stood up to the tribunal , he spoke in this ...
... daughter lastly he himself being presented . The supplications of the rest were degenerate , out of fear but not Carádoc , either with a de- jected look or asking mercy with words . When he stood up to the tribunal , he spoke in this ...
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... inscribed Cæsar and his two daughters his heir , thinking , by such obsequious- ness , his kingdom , and , likewise , his household , * Taciti Annales , L. 14 , § 29 . : to be far from injury ; which turned out 14 THE LIFE OF.
... inscribed Cæsar and his two daughters his heir , thinking , by such obsequious- ness , his kingdom , and , likewise , his household , * Taciti Annales , L. 14 , § 29 . : to be far from injury ; which turned out 14 THE LIFE OF.
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... daughters were violated and whosoever were the principal of the Icenians , as if they had received the whole region for a gift , they were stripped of their ancient possessions and their relations were held among the slaves of the king ...
... daughters were violated and whosoever were the principal of the Icenians , as if they had received the whole region for a gift , they were stripped of their ancient possessions and their relations were held among the slaves of the king ...
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... daughters violated : that the lusts of the Romans had proceeded so far , that not bodies nor , even , old - age or vir- ginity unpolluted , they should leave . Neverthe- less , that the gods of just vengeance were pre- sent that a ...
... daughters violated : that the lusts of the Romans had proceeded so far , that not bodies nor , even , old - age or vir- ginity unpolluted , they should leave . Neverthe- less , that the gods of just vengeance were pre- sent that a ...
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Página 132 - Boileau: Thus one fool lolls his tongue out at another, And shakes his empty noddle at his brother.
Página 23 - The barbarians drive us to the sea ; the sea drives us back to the barbarians : between them we are exposed to two sorts of death ; we are either slain or drowned.
Página 20 - Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away.
Página 81 - ... Tor in the Parish of North-hill, which is in the same hundred as Callington, and within a short distance of it. Norden gives the following description of the spot. " It is a square Plott, about 60 foote long and about 35 foote broade situate in a playne Mountayne, wrowghte some 3 foote in the grounde and by reason of the depression of the place there standeth a otarige or poole of water, the place (being) sett round about with flat stones.
Página xi - ... unknown."* These prophecies, therefore, are inserted about the middle of the book, in which the history is afterward prosecuted. The last chapter is couched in these words : " The kings, however, of those who, from that time, succeeded in Wales, I permit, in matter of writing, to Caradoc of Llancarvan, my contemporary : the kings, truly, of the Saxons to William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon : whom I enjoin to hold their peace concerning the kings of the Britons, inasmuch as they have...
Página iii - Brutus ! there lies beyond the Gallic bounds An island which the western sea surrounds, By giants once possessed; now few remain To bar thy entrance, or obstruct thy reign. To reach that happy shore thy sails employ; There fate decrees to raise a second Troy, And found an empire in thy royal line, Which time shall ne'er destroy, nor bounds confine.
Página 56 - Grist, The infancy of Jesus Christ :" apparently, a childish book or book for children, like "Mother Goose's tales.
Página 55 - The Cambrian biography or historical notices of celebrated men among the ancient Britons [and modern Welsh] :" London, 1803, the author says, under the name of • S.
Página 153 - Be it known and without doubt unto you, that we all are, and every one of us, obedient and subjects to the church of God, and to the pope of Rome, and to every godly Christian, to love every one in his degree in perfect charity, and to help every one of them by word and deed to be the children of God ; and other obedience than this I do not know due to him whom you name to be pope, nor to be the father of fathers, to be claimed and to be demanded.
Página xxxi - ... England, in which are recorded the famous deeds of King Arthur, whom we in our popular Castilian invariably call King Artus, with regard to whom it is an ancient tradition, and commonly received all over that kingdom of Great Britain, that this king did not die, but was changed by magic art into a raven, and that in process of time he is to return to reign and recover his kingdom and sceptre; for which reason it cannot be proved that from that time to this any Englishman ever killed a raven?...