not of this building," but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh. Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx - Side 517af Sir John Rhys - 1901 - 718 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - 848 sider
...materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely ;—stones " not of this building," but of an older architecture,...greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval Btories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh. Kilhwch, in the... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 214 sider
...materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely ;—stones " not of this building," but of an older architecture,...more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin ©r Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh. Kilhwch, in the story, already quoted,... | |
| Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1893 - 662 sider
...materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely— stones ' not of this building', but of an older architecture,...greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval 1 See Skene's Finn- Ancient Bonks of Wales, ii, 303 ; also ii, 108-9, where the fragment of the poem... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - 1896 - 208 sider
...of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by glimmering tradition merely ; stones ' not of this building,' but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical." The English literary history- of the Arthurian legends from Malory to Tennyson is rather a curious... | |
| 1898 - 452 sider
...and is made to tell its own story." The question we are concerned with is : Whence these " stones ' not of this building', but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical"; this detritus " of something far older" ? It will be as well, perhaps, to state here that, despite... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1902 - 710 sider
...of materialof which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely ; stones " not of this building," but of an older architecture,...people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh.' It may appear ungracious to utter here a word of complaint against men who have done so much to interpret... | |
| William Paton Ker - 1904 - 382 sider
...this building,' but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majesticaL In the media¿val stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh.” The Celtic mythology has been restored and explained by Professor John Rh$¿s in his Lectures on Celtic... | |
| Charles Squire - 1905 - 494 sider
...of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely : stones ' not of this building ', but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical." His heroes "are no mediaeval personages: they belong to an older, pagan, mythological world ". So,... | |
| Charles Squire - 1905 - 468 sider
...of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely : stones ' not of this building ', but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical." His heroes "are no mediaeval personages: they belong to an older, pagan, mythological world ". So,... | |
| Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1914 - 600 sider
...full of material of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely; stones 'not of this building', but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediœval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh." In... | |
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