The Literature of the Kymry: Being a Critical Essay on the History of the Language and Literature of Wales During the Twelfth and Two Succeeding Centuries; Containing Numerous Specimens of Ancient Welsh Poetry in the Original and Accompanied with English TranslationsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1876 - 494 ページ |
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Aberffraw allusions Aneurin Annwn appears Arch Arglwydd Arthur Avallenau bardic bards battle Breton Britain Bryneich Bychan Cadwaladr Caer called Cambrian character chief chieftains Dyved Einion Eisteddfod English essay fact favour Geoffrey Gnawd Goch goreu Gruffydd ab Kynan Gwae Gwalchmai Gwenddydd gwyr Hael Hanes Cymru hero honour Howel Iolo Goch Iolo MSS King Kymry Kynddelw land language Lewis Glyn Cothi lines literature lived Llawer Llewelyn ab Iorwerth Llwyd Llywarch Hen Llywelyn Lord Mabinogi Mabinogion Madoc mawr Meilir Merddin Meredydd merit Merthyr Nennius Neud North Wales oedd Owain Gwynedd poems poet poetic poetry Powys praise prince Prydydd Pwyll rhag Rhydderch Hael Rhys Rhys Gryg romance Saxons says song Stephens story Taliesin thee thou translation Triads twelfth century Urien verses warriors Welsh words
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478 ページ - Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. 19 Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
478 ページ - Per me si va nella città dolente; per me si va nell' eterno dolore; per me si va tra la perduta gente.
335 ページ - In their musical concerts they do not sing in unison like the inhabitants of other countries, but in many different parts; so that in a company of singers, which one very frequently meets with in Wales, you will hear as many different parts and voices as there are performers, who all at length unite, with organic melody, in one consonance and the soft sweetness of B flat.
453 ページ - E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread : What though upon her speech there hung The accents of the mountain tongue, Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear, The listener held his breath to hear.
5 ページ - The chief of song shall begin the singing in the common hall. He shall be next but one to the patron of the family. He shall have a harp from the King, and a gold ring from the Queen, when his office is secured to him. The harp he shall never part with.
404 ページ - The eye of the trained hawk, the glance of the three-mewed falcon was not brighter than hers. Her bosom was more snowy than the breast of the white swan, her cheek was redder than the reddest roses.
58 ページ - To doff his cloak he next is seen ; He snorted ; bridled in his face, And bent it down with much grimace, Like to a kite he seemed that day, A kite, when feathering of his prey ! The churl did blow a grating shriek, The bag did swell, and harshly squeak, As does a goose from nightmare crying, Or dog, crushed by a chest when dying; This whistling box's changeless note Is forced from turgid veins and throat; Its sound is like a crane's harsh moan, Or like a gosling's latest groan ; Just such a noise...
81 ページ - The knife is in the meat, and the drink is in the horn, and there is revelry in the hall of Gwrnach the Giant, and except for a craftsman who brings his craft, the gate will not be opened to-night.
404 ページ - ... sported around him. And his courser cast up four sods with his four hoofs, like four swallows in the air, about his head, now above, now below. About him was a four-cornered cloth of purple ; and an apple of gold was at each corner, and every one of the apples was of the value of an hundred kine. And there was precious gold of the value of three hundred kine upon his shoes, and upon his stirrups, from his knee to the tip of his toe. And the blade of grass bent not beneath him, so light was his...
173 ページ - I was at the place of the crucifixion of the merciful Son of God ; I have been three periods in the prison of Arianrod ; I have been the chief director of the work of the tower of Nimrod ; I am a wonder whose origin is not known. I have been in Asia with Noah in the ark...