The Misfortunes of ElphinT. Hookham, 1829 - 240 páginas |
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abbey abbot amongst Andraste Angharad ap Seithyn Saidi arms Avallon bard Bardic Congress beautiful Bedwyr breakers Britain Britons buffalo horn Caer Lleon Caredigion castle cavern Ceridwen CHAP coracle cupbearers daughter deep Diganwy Dinas Vawr draught drink Druids Elphin and Teithrin embankment eyes feast festival fire fish forest gates golden goblet GWIN Gwythno Gwythno Garanhir hall hand harp heard Hengist hero honourable King Arthur King Melvas ladies land light lips liquor Llywarch looked Maelgon Gwyneth Maelienydd Mawddach mead Melanghel monk mountain NONNUS oppression of Gwenhidwy palace peace over violence Plain of Gwaelod poem portion Prince Seithenyn princess Queen Gwenyvar Rhûn roar rock rolling royal Saxon band Saxons Seithenyn ap Seithyn shore song sound spear springtide stood storm stranger sword Taliesin Teithrin ap Tathral thing torrents tower TRIADS tumult Uther Pendragon voice Vortigern Vortimer walls waters waves weir wife wind Wine from gold
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Página 69 - twould win me That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Página 142 - The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter; We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. We made an expedition; We met a host and quelled it; We forced a strong position, And killed the men who held it. On Dyfed's richest valley, Where herds of kine were browsing, We made a mighty sally, To furnish our carousing. Fierce warriors rushed to meet us; We met them and o'erthrew them: They struggled hard to beat us; But we conquered them and slew them.
Página 143 - Spilt blood enough to swim in : We orphaned many children, And widowed many women. The eagles and the ravens We glutted with our foemen : The heroes and the cravens, The spearmen and the bowmen. ~ We brought away from battle, And much their land bemoaned them, Two thousand head of cattle, And the head of him who owned them : Ednyfed, King of Dyfed, His head was borne before us ; His wine and beasts supplied our feasts, And his overthrow, our chorus.
Página 25 - I could build any thing that would stand against them half an hour; and here this immortal old work, which God forbid the finger of modern mason should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more if we let it alone. It is well: it works well: let well alone. Cupbearer, fill. It was half rotten when I was born, and that is a conclusive reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die.
Página 78 - The three primary requisites of poetical Genius; an eye that can see Nature, a heart that can feel Nature, and a resolution that dares follow nature.
Página 143 - As we drove our prize at leisure, The king marched forth to catch us : His rage surpassed all measure, But his people could not match us.
Página 210 - ... whole retinue of magnanimous heroes were inflamed with intense ardour to join the standard of Arthur ; and Melvas vowed most solemnly to Taliesin that another sun should not set before Queen Gwenyvar should be under the most honourable guidance on her return to Caer Lleon. CHAPTER XV. THE CIRCLE OF THE BARDS. The three dignities of poetry : the union of the true and the wonderful ; the union of the beautiful and the wise ; and the union of art and nature.
Página 1 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes ; Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 148 - They have not made it known to me,' said Seithenyn, ' for the best of all reasons, that one can only know the truth ; for, if that which we think we know is not truth, it is something which we do not know. A man cannot know his own death ; for, while he knows anything, he is alive ; at least, I never heard of a dead man who knew anything, or pretended to know anything ; if he had so pretended, I should have told him to his face he was no dead man.
Página 80 - They could neither poison the air with gas, nor the waters with its dregs : in short, they made their money of metal, and breathed pure air, and drank pure water, like unscientific barbarians. Of moral science they had little; but morals, without science, they had about the same as we have. They had a number of fine precepts, partly from their religion, partly from their bards, which they remembered in their liquor, and forgot in their business.