Y Cymmrodor: Embodying the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion of London, Volumes 5-6Robert Jones, Thomas Powel The Society., 1882 |
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ac yn aeth amser ancient appears Beddgelert beds Brython Bwlch-y-ddeufaen cael called cave Celtic Celts character chwedl chwi College Cymmrodor Cymmrodorion Davies Denbighshire dialect Dinas district east Eisteddfod England English Evans Fair Family Fairies Flintshire Folk-Lore gael Goch heard Hugh hymns hyny iddo iddynt Iolo Iolo Goch Ireland Irish Language James Britten Jones lake limestone literature lived Llyn lodes Lord Meirionydd mewn mother mountain National native neighbourhood night North Wales oedd yn Owen parish pass Pembrokeshire Penmaen poem present Romans sandstones seen shales Shropshire Society South Wales speak spoken stones story strata sydd tale Thomas tion translation Tylwyth Teg wedi Welsh language Welshman Williams words Wrexham writer wrth yr oedd
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Page 56 - Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, And lighten with celestial fire. Thou the anointing Spirit art, Who dost Thy sevenfold gifts impart. Thy blessed Unction from above, Is comfort, life, and fire of love. Enable with perpetual light The dulness of our blinded sight. Anoint and cheer our soiled face With the abundance of Thy grace. Keep far our foes, give peace at home ; Where Thou art guide, no ill can come. Teach us to know the Father, Son, And Thee, of both, to be but One. That, through the ages all...
Page 83 - The prisoner of amaze ! — in his blest life I see the path, and in his death the price, And in his great ascent the proof supreme Of immortality.
Page 57 - Accende lumen sensibus, infunde amorem cordibus, infirma nostri corporis virtute firmans perpeti. Hostem repellas longius, pacemque dones protinus ; ductore sic te praevio vitemus omne noxium. Per te sciamus da Patrem, noscamus atque Filium, teque utriusque Spiritum credamus omni tempore.
Page 225 - ... all sorts of arms into Wales, as you prohibit by proclamation (with something more of doubt on the legality) the sending arms to America. They disarmed the Welsh by statute, as you attempted (but still with more question on the legality) to disarm New England by an instruction.
Page 156 - They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.
Page 158 - For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.
Page 82 - What healing hand can pour the balm of peace ? And turn my sight undaunted on the tomb ? With joy, — with grief, that healing hand I see ; Ah ! too conspicuous ! it is fix'd on high.
Page 236 - Now, such as the beast was, e'en such was the rider, With a head like a nutmeg, and legs like a spider, A voice like a cricket, a look like a rat. The brains of a goose, and the heart of a cat. E'en such was my guide, and his beast ; let them pass, The one for a horse, and the other an ass.
Page 245 - ... a farmyard. My intention is to remove instantaneously the buildings on which it leans ; and it declines so greatly from the perpendicular that its fall is certain. I had hoped for permission to construct from the materials a school and a receptacle for the poor. I have conversed with the lower ranks of more than one nation in Europe, and last of all with those who have generally been considered the most superstitious and the most barbarous.
Page 225 - ... ordained that his trial should be always by English. They made acts to restrain trade, as you do; and they prevented the Welsh from the use of fairs and markets, as you do the Americans from fisheries and foreign ports.