The Life of King Arthur: From Ancient Historians and Authentic DocumentsPayne and Foss, 1825 - 172 páginas |
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... arch - deacon of Huntingdon , appears to have been the best elegiac poet of that age . + The title varies in the different manuscripts and printed copies . There are three editions , in Latin , under these titles : " Britannie utriusque ...
... arch - deacon of Huntingdon , appears to have been the best elegiac poet of that age . + The title varies in the different manuscripts and printed copies . There are three editions , in Latin , under these titles : " Britannie utriusque ...
Página vii
... Peterborough , whose fidelity and candour and veracity , " he says , are very conspicuous and well known to the world " ( Preface to the 7th volume of Leland's Itinerary . ) archdeacon of Oxford , a man learned in the ora- PREFACE . vii.
... Peterborough , whose fidelity and candour and veracity , " he says , are very conspicuous and well known to the world " ( Preface to the 7th volume of Leland's Itinerary . ) archdeacon of Oxford , a man learned in the ora- PREFACE . vii.
Página viii
... archdeacon of Oxford between , at least , 1103 and 1152 ( see Le Neve's Fasti , and Tanner's Bibliotheca ) and , by no means , Walter de Constantiis , who , according to Le Neve , succeeded in 1175 , but , probably , much sooner , as he ...
... archdeacon of Oxford between , at least , 1103 and 1152 ( see Le Neve's Fasti , and Tanner's Bibliotheca ) and , by no means , Walter de Constantiis , who , according to Le Neve , succeeded in 1175 , but , probably , much sooner , as he ...
Página ix
... archdeacon of Oxford , would be not a little extraordinary , and is certainly unparal- lelled in the ecclesiastical history of England . That the mo- dern Welsh , indeed , do not distinguish the original from the translation , admitting ...
... archdeacon of Oxford , would be not a little extraordinary , and is certainly unparal- lelled in the ecclesiastical history of England . That the mo- dern Welsh , indeed , do not distinguish the original from the translation , admitting ...
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... archdeacon of Oxford [ an office , it has been , already observed , he did not attain till upwards of forty years after the death of Geoffrey of Monmouth , so that he must have written this chronicle before he was born ] ; for there is ...
... archdeacon of Oxford [ an office , it has been , already observed , he did not attain till upwards of forty years after the death of Geoffrey of Monmouth , so that he must have written this chronicle before he was born ] ; for there is ...
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Página 122 - ... other that is below him in point of understanding, and triumphs in the superiority of his genius, whilst he has such objects of derision before his eyes. Mr.
Página 16 - Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave takes half his worth away.
Página xiv - ... we do not know, it may be urged with equal force, on the other hand, that all ova and spores, in so far as we know anything about them, are destroyed by prolonged boiling: therefore from analogy we are equally bound to infer that Vibrios...
Página 52 - Jews, having a harp, but, this is the first time, we have heard of the harp of the " mythological" king Arthur, " There are some very extraordinary things to be found," adds this perspicacious and far-sighted Welshman, "concerning the mythological Arthur, in the Mabinogion, and, particularly, in the story of Culhwch and Olwen, wherein we recognize adventures, which must have had a common origin with those of Hercules and the Argonautick voyage
Página vii - Llancarvan, my contemporary : the kings, truly, of the Saxons to William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon : whom I...
Página 49 - Cambrian biography or historical notices of celebrated men among the ancient Britons...
Página 143 - 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 74 - I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was not in ; Taffy came to my house, and stole a silver pin : I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was in bed, I took up a poker and flung it at his head.