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... heard of , Merlin the Enchanter . He is an important actor in the British struggles against the Saxon invader . The unpa- ralleled prodigy of his birth , the fight of the ominous dragons , the magician's subtle arts and quaint disguises ...
... heard of , Merlin the Enchanter . He is an important actor in the British struggles against the Saxon invader . The unpa- ralleled prodigy of his birth , the fight of the ominous dragons , the magician's subtle arts and quaint disguises ...
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... heard of Robin Hood here , except in these names . Is it possible that notorious character could have ended his days here ? Last summer I visited the scene of one of the Mabinogion , and found the names and incidents of it still ...
... heard of Robin Hood here , except in these names . Is it possible that notorious character could have ended his days here ? Last summer I visited the scene of one of the Mabinogion , and found the names and incidents of it still ...
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... heard dispers'd in flight ; Of Morar's fame he heard , -why heard he not The wound , the hero's death was Morar's lot ? O ! sire of Morar , still thy son deplore ; Weep on for ever , but he hears no more : Deep are the slumbers of the ...
... heard dispers'd in flight ; Of Morar's fame he heard , -why heard he not The wound , the hero's death was Morar's lot ? O ! sire of Morar , still thy son deplore ; Weep on for ever , but he hears no more : Deep are the slumbers of the ...
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... heard before . But it seemed as if the tune , like mortal wights , was jolted into a fit of indigestion , by attempting to run down that shingly descent . Whenever it began a fine dignified martial flourish , every long note of which it ...
... heard before . But it seemed as if the tune , like mortal wights , was jolted into a fit of indigestion , by attempting to run down that shingly descent . Whenever it began a fine dignified martial flourish , every long note of which it ...
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... heard it the second time , and as the parson of the parish , a connoisseur in music , took it down from his whistling , was much less abrupt and mountainous than on the former occasion . The Rev. Mr. Ap -presented my grandmother , of ...
... heard it the second time , and as the parson of the parish , a connoisseur in music , took it down from his whistling , was much less abrupt and mountainous than on the former occasion . The Rev. Mr. Ap -presented my grandmother , of ...
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Página 448 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Página 502 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months...
Página 235 - is one thing, and danger is another. Every thing that is old must decay. That the embankment is old, I am free to confess; that it is somewhat rotten in parts, I will not altogether deny; that it is any the worse for that, I do most sturdily gainsay. It does its business well: it works well: it keeps out the water from the land, and it lets in the wine upon the High Commission of Embankment. Cupbearer, fill. Our ancestors were wiser than we; they built it in their wisdom; and, if we should be so...
Página 235 - 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 239 - 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 235 - is one thing, and danger is another. Everything that is old must decay. That the embankment is old, I am free to confess; that it is somewhat rotten in parts, I will not altogether deny; that it is any the worse for that, I do most sturdily gainsay. It does its business well: it works well: it keeps out the water from the land, and it lets in the wine upon the High Commission of Embankment.
Página 211 - And saw old Time in his loaded boat, Slowly he crossed Life's narrow tide, While Love sat clapping his wings, and cried, ' Who will pass Time ? ' " Patience came first, but soon was gone, With helm and sail to help time on ; Care and Grief could not lend an oar, And Prudence said (while he stayed on shore;,
Página 291 - Or, frequent in the sounding hall, they wake The rural gambol. Rustic mirth goes round ; The simple joke that takes the shepherd's heart, Easily pleased; the long, loud laugh, sincere ; The...
Página 19 - Rights Usages Laws and Customs be far discrepant from the Laws and Customs of this Realm, and also because that the People of the same Dominion have and do daily use a Speech nothing like, nor consonant to the natural Mother Tongue used within this Realm...
Página 232 - Embankment; and he executed it as a personage so denominated might be expected to do: he drank the profits, and left the embankment to his deputies, who left it to their assistants, who left it to itself.