The life of king Arthur [ed. by J. Frank.]. |
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Página ix
... " In the library of the family of Davies , at Llanerk in Denbighshire , " he says , " is a copy of Geoffrey's book in the hand - writing of Guttyn Owen , of thy nobility , Alexander bishop of Lincoln , compels PREFACE . ix.
... " In the library of the family of Davies , at Llanerk in Denbighshire , " he says , " is a copy of Geoffrey's book in the hand - writing of Guttyn Owen , of thy nobility , Alexander bishop of Lincoln , compels PREFACE . ix.
Página x
... written by Tyssilio , which , " says he , " I find inserted in H. Salbury's manuscript Catalogue of Welsh words ... written this chronicle before he was born ] ; for there is no authority for asserting that Tysilio wrote any thing beside ...
... written by Tyssilio , which , " says he , " I find inserted in H. Salbury's manuscript Catalogue of Welsh words ... written this chronicle before he was born ] ; for there is no authority for asserting that Tysilio wrote any thing beside ...
Página xi
... written the history which I had begun of the acts of the Britons for I had proposed to finish that first and explain this work subsequently : lest , while each labour should be in hand , my capacity should the less suffice to either ...
... written the history which I had begun of the acts of the Britons for I had proposed to finish that first and explain this work subsequently : lest , while each labour should be in hand , my capacity should the less suffice to either ...
Página xiii
... writing , very frequently enquiring after the knowledge of those times , was I ever able to find it such a violent death of oblivion overshadows and extinguishes the successful glory of the diu- turnity of mortals . Nevertheless , in ...
... writing , very frequently enquiring after the knowledge of those times , was I ever able to find it such a violent death of oblivion overshadows and extinguishes the successful glory of the diu- turnity of mortals . Nevertheless , in ...
Página xix
... written by Myrddin ap Morfryn or Myrddin wylt , Merlinus Sylvestris or Caledonius , about the year 550 , and mentioning Medrawd , Arthur , Gwenhwyfar and the battle of Camlan , nothing would more effectually tend to prove that either ...
... written by Myrddin ap Morfryn or Myrddin wylt , Merlinus Sylvestris or Caledonius , about the year 550 , and mentioning Medrawd , Arthur , Gwenhwyfar and the battle of Camlan , nothing would more effectually tend to prove that either ...
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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?...