Britannia Antiquissima ; Or, a Key to the Philology of History (sacred and Profane)H.T. Dwight, 1860 - 216 sider |
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Side vii
... antiquity . There is honor and fame in store for him who can succeed in unravelling the symbolical meaning of the Coelbrennic or Bardic alphabet - which may be instrumental in the elucidation of phi- losophical Druidism , the fervid ...
... antiquity . There is honor and fame in store for him who can succeed in unravelling the symbolical meaning of the Coelbrennic or Bardic alphabet - which may be instrumental in the elucidation of phi- losophical Druidism , the fervid ...
Side ix
... antiquity - their origin and lan- guage , their manners and customs , their hospitality and commerce , their laws and literature , their music and their bards , their princes and their kings , their noble heroes and their chieftains ...
... antiquity - their origin and lan- guage , their manners and customs , their hospitality and commerce , their laws and literature , their music and their bards , their princes and their kings , their noble heroes and their chieftains ...
Side xxi
... Antiquity of Caer , Bod , & c . Plâs and Palatium : 198 199 199 200 200 201 201 203 201 205 205 206 207 207 208 209 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 216 Identity of Piratical Frisiabones with Saxons Primary Buildings and Secondary ...
... Antiquity of Caer , Bod , & c . Plâs and Palatium : 198 199 199 200 200 201 201 203 201 205 205 206 207 207 208 209 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 216 Identity of Piratical Frisiabones with Saxons Primary Buildings and Secondary ...
Side 2
... antiquity and dignity , our rights and literature , as well as our incontestable civilization , in pre - historic times . It is often asked , Who were the Cymry , Cimbri , Cimmerians ? whence came they ? with what branch or race of the ...
... antiquity and dignity , our rights and literature , as well as our incontestable civilization , in pre - historic times . It is often asked , Who were the Cymry , Cimbri , Cimmerians ? whence came they ? with what branch or race of the ...
Side 24
... antiquity of our pre - historical records , known and appreciated to their full value and import , through the really learned societies of Europe and the world under the immortal name of Triads . In this dilemma the investigator of ...
... antiquity of our pre - historical records , known and appreciated to their full value and import , through the really learned societies of Europe and the world under the immortal name of Triads . In this dilemma the investigator of ...
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Side 87 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Side 100 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Side 148 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly, that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Side 108 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Side 55 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, And are counted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
Side 138 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Side 22 - SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains?
Side 156 - Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
Side 56 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around And still I seem to tread on classic ground...
Side 143 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...