Memoirs of the Celts Or GaulsPayne and Foss, 1827 - 369 pages |
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Page 330 - ROWLANDS (Henry) Mona Antiqua Restaurata : An Archaeological Discourse on the Antiquities, Natural and Historical, of the Isle of Anglesey, the antient seat of the British Druids.
Page 91 - Oft (as Fame tells) the earth in sounds of woe Is heard to groan from hollow depths below; The baleful yew, though dead, has oft been seen To rise from earth, and spring with dusky green: With sparkling flames the trees unburning shine, And round their boles prodigious serpents twine.
Page 324 - Historic of Cambria, now called Wales: A part of the most famous Yland of Brytaine, written in the Brytish language above two hundreth yeares past: translated into English by H. Lhoyd, gentleman: Corrected, augmented, and continued out of Records and best approoved Authors, by David Powel, Doctor in Divinitie.
Page 208 - ... glorious acts. The Hyperboreans use their own natural language : but of long and ancient time have had a special kindness for the Grecians, and more especially for the Athenians, and them of Delos. And that some of the Grecians passed over to the Hyperboreans, and left behind them divers presents, inscribed with Greek characters ; and that Abaris formerly travelled thence into Greece, and renewed the ancient league of friendship with the Delians.
Page 64 - You too, ye bards ! whom sacred raptures fire. To chant your heroes to your country's lyre; Who consecrate, in your immortal strain, Brave patriot souls, in righteous battle slain, Securely now the tuneful task renew, And noblest themes in deathless songs pursue.
Page 164 - Their way of fighting with their chariots is this : First they drive their chariots on all sides, and throw their darts, insomuch that, by the very terror of the horses and noise of the wheels, they often break the ranks of the enemy. When they have forced their way into the midst of the cavalry, they quit their chariots, and fight on foot : meantime the drivers retire a little from the combat, and...
Page 65 - If dying mortals' dooms they sing aright, No ghosts descend to dwell in dreadful night ; No parting souls to grisly Pluto go, Nor seek the dreary, silent shades below : But forth they fly, immortal in their kind. And other bodies in new worlds they find.
Page 91 - Now, let no doubting hand the task decline ; Cut you the wood, and let the guilt be mine.
Page 328 - Cambria Triumphans, or Brittain in its Perfect Lustre, shewing the Origen and Antiquity of that Illustrious Nation. The Succession of their Kings and Princes, from the First, to King Charles of Happy Memory.
Page 208 - ... and that Apollo, once in nineteen years, comes into the island; in which space of time the stars perform their courses, and return to the same point; and therefore the Greeks call the revolution of nineteen years, the Great Year. At this time of his appearance they say that he plays upon the harp, and sings and dances all the night, from the vernal equinox f to the rising of the Pleiades^, solacing himself with the praises of his own successful adventures.