Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards: Preserved, by Tradition and Authentic Manuscripts, from Very Remote Antiquity; Never Before Published; to the Bardic Tunes are Added Variations for the Harp, Piano-forte, Violin, Or Flute, with a Select Collection of the Pennillion, and Englynion; Or, Poetical Blossoms, Epigramatic Stanzas and Pastoral Songs of Wales, with English Translations; Likewise, a General History of the Bards and Druids |
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... a plan that should always be adhered to in a language like the Welsh , that
springs and expands from a regular set of ... cognizance ; and in its common
acceptation it denotes a priest ; and is the origin of the term Druid in other
languages .
... a plan that should always be adhered to in a language like the Welsh , that
springs and expands from a regular set of ... cognizance ; and in its common
acceptation it denotes a priest ; and is the origin of the term Druid in other
languages .
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The British language , in which shyme is as old as poetry itself , had in the sixth
century , attained such copiousness and musical refinement , that the Bards
commonly composed in unirythm stanzas of The rhymes of modern Italy are as
famous ...
The British language , in which shyme is as old as poetry itself , had in the sixth
century , attained such copiousness and musical refinement , that the Bards
commonly composed in unirythm stanzas of The rhymes of modern Italy are as
famous ...
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Another cause , which operated with equal power on our poetry , was the
strength and beauty of the lan . guage in which it was conveyed ; if it may not with
greater truth be said , that by the Poetry those inherent properties of the language
were ...
Another cause , which operated with equal power on our poetry , was the
strength and beauty of the lan . guage in which it was conveyed ; if it may not with
greater truth be said , that by the Poetry those inherent properties of the language
were ...
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The ancient languages of Greece and Rome were not clogged with a
superabundance of consonants , and were chiefly ... The old British language
abounded with consonants , and was formed of monosyllables , which are
incompatible with ...
The ancient languages of Greece and Rome were not clogged with a
superabundance of consonants , and were chiefly ... The old British language
abounded with consonants , and was formed of monosyllables , which are
incompatible with ...
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The Welsh language was common to all Britain , prior to the Saxon invasion . The
natives of Cornwal , and part of Devonshire , began to lose their old Celtie dialect
in the reign of Elizabeth , and it is now almost extina ; although the people of ...
The Welsh language was common to all Britain , prior to the Saxon invasion . The
natives of Cornwal , and part of Devonshire , began to lose their old Celtie dialect
in the reign of Elizabeth , and it is now almost extina ; although the people of ...
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