Six Old English Chronicles: Of which Two are Now First Translated from the Monkish Latin OriginalsJohn Allen Giles, Gildas Henry G. Bohn, 1848 - 512 pages |
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... Arthur IX . 1 . Anne King Arthur dies , A.D. 542 ( XI . 3. ) 92. Constantine 93. Aurelius Conan 94. Wortiporius 95. Malgo 96. Careticus 97. Cadwan Peanda ( sister ) 98. Cadwallo 99. Cadwallader Cadwallader goes to Rome , where he is ...
... Arthur IX . 1 . Anne King Arthur dies , A.D. 542 ( XI . 3. ) 92. Constantine 93. Aurelius Conan 94. Wortiporius 95. Malgo 96. Careticus 97. Cadwan Peanda ( sister ) 98. Cadwallo 99. Cadwallader Cadwallader goes to Rome , where he is ...
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... Arthur , and many others who succeeded after the Incarnation ; though their actions both deserved immortal fame , and were also celebrated by many people in a pleasant manner and by heart , as if they had been written . Whilst I was ...
... Arthur , and many others who succeeded after the Incarnation ; though their actions both deserved immortal fame , and were also celebrated by many people in a pleasant manner and by heart , as if they had been written . Whilst I was ...
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... conceived of the most renowned Arthur , whose heroic and wonderful actions have justly rendered his name famous to posterity . CHAP . XX . - Gorlois being killed , Uther A.D. 492.j 225 UTHER AND OTHERS METAMORPHOSED .
... conceived of the most renowned Arthur , whose heroic and wonderful actions have justly rendered his name famous to posterity . CHAP . XX . - Gorlois being killed , Uther A.D. 492.j 225 UTHER AND OTHERS METAMORPHOSED .
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... Arthur and Anne . CHAP . XXI . - Octa and Eosa renew the war . Lot , a consul , marries the king's daughter . IN process of time the king was taken ill of a lingering distemper ; and meanwhile the keepers of the prison , wherein Octa ...
... Arthur and Anne . CHAP . XXI . - Octa and Eosa renew the war . Lot , a consul , marries the king's daughter . IN process of time the king was taken ill of a lingering distemper ; and meanwhile the keepers of the prison , wherein Octa ...
Page 229
... his body to the convent of Ambrius , where they buried it with regal solemnity , close by Aurelius Ambrosius , within the Giant's Dance . BOOK IX . CHAP . I. - Arthur succeeds Uther A.D. 494. ] 229 UTHER TREACHEROUSLY POISONED .
... his body to the convent of Ambrius , where they buried it with regal solemnity , close by Aurelius Ambrosius , within the Giant's Dance . BOOK IX . CHAP . I. - Arthur succeeds Uther A.D. 494. ] 229 UTHER TREACHEROUSLY POISONED .
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Page 399 - He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dung-hill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.
Page 330 - But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, And your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity ; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: They trust in vanity, and speak lies ; They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. They hatch cockatrice...
Page 331 - Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness : their feet are swift to shed blood : destruction and misery are in their ways : and the way of peace they have not known : there is no fear of God before their eyes.
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Page 297 - And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven...
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Page 296 - And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness : there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 76 - On a certain day we were both of us sitting in the king's chamber, talking on all kinds of subjects, as usual, and it happened that I read to him a quotation out of a certain book. He heard it attentively with both his ears, and addressed me with a thoughtful mind, showing me at the same moment a book which he carried in his bosom, wherein the daily courses and psalms, and prayers which he had read in his youth, were written, and he commanded me to write the same quotation in that book.
Page 71 - In these times, I also came into Saxony [Wessex] out of the furthest coasts of Western Britain; and when I had proposed to go to him through many intervening provinces, I arrived in the country of the Saxons, who live on the right hand, which in Saxon is called Sussex, under the guidance of some of that nation; and there I first saw him in the royal vill, which is called Dene.