An Essay on the Character of the Welsh as a Nation, in the Present AgeSimpkin and Marshall, 1841 - 342 páginas |
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... metres used in the language . It has been noticed by many that shoe - makers are a class of artisans who are somewhat remarkable for their shrewdness , and many of them maintain a reputation , among their acquaintance , for talents and ...
... metres used in the language . It has been noticed by many that shoe - makers are a class of artisans who are somewhat remarkable for their shrewdness , and many of them maintain a reputation , among their acquaintance , for talents and ...
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... metre , rather than to those constructed in the shackles of the Cynghanedd ? Considerable activity exists , among our population , in the department of literature . The press sends forth information of various kinds , in great abundance ...
... metre , rather than to those constructed in the shackles of the Cynghanedd ? Considerable activity exists , among our population , in the department of literature . The press sends forth information of various kinds , in great abundance ...
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... metres , in which the bards of Wales delight to sing , are exceedingly rigorous and peculiar , but the nature of the language is such that a poet of genius does not experience all the difficulty which some might imagine , in composing ...
... metres , in which the bards of Wales delight to sing , are exceedingly rigorous and peculiar , but the nature of the language is such that a poet of genius does not experience all the difficulty which some might imagine , in composing ...
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... metre . The distance is fixed by laws , and those laws may not be transgresse l . Then the vowels are varied in a peculiar manner , and the syllables are required to be of a fixed num- ber . An essential part of the metre , likewise ...
... metre . The distance is fixed by laws , and those laws may not be transgresse l . Then the vowels are varied in a peculiar manner , and the syllables are required to be of a fixed num- ber . An essential part of the metre , likewise ...
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... metre as blank verse , yet his poetry , like all his other Welsh writings , is very ob- scure . His translation of Paradise Lost ' is a masterly per- formance ; only few , however , can enter into its merits and discover its beauties ...
... metre as blank verse , yet his poetry , like all his other Welsh writings , is very ob- scure . His translation of Paradise Lost ' is a masterly per- formance ; only few , however , can enter into its merits and discover its beauties ...
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Página 59 - Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Página 87 - By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.
Página 87 - fine frenzy" which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy, doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just, but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which almost amounts to a partial and temporary derangement of the intellect.
Página 6 - ... and froze the genial current of the soul. full many a gem of purest ray serene the dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear : full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Página 69 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Página 151 - ... a higher end than to be amused. In every community there must be pleasures, relaxations and means of agreeable excitement ; and if innocent ones are not furnished, resort will be had to criminal.
Página 84 - Here lie at rest, In oaken chest, Together pack'd most nicely, The bones and brains, Flesh, blood, and veins, And soul of Doctor Priestley.
Página 109 - The roots, or original characters of the Chinese, (or what, by a species of analogy, may be called its alphabet^) are only 214 in number, and might indeed be reduced to a much smaller amount by a little dissection and analysis. To assert that there are so many thousand characters in the language is very much the same thing as to say that there are so many thousand words in Johnson's dictionary ; nor is a knowledge of the whole...
Página 152 - The laboring classes are most exposed to intemperance, because they have at present few other pleasurable excitements. A man, who, after toil, has resources of blameless [recreation, is less tempted than other men to seek self-oblivion. He has too many of the pleasures of a man, to take up with those of a brute. Thus the encouragement of simple, innocent "enjoyments is an important means of temperance.
Página 151 - In every community there must be pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement; and if innocent ones are not furnished, resort will be had to criminal. Man was made to enjoy as well as to labour ; and the state of society should be adapted to this principle of human nature.