The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian

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Página 57 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Página 75 - Act for the Better Propagation and Preaching of the Gospel in Wales (1650-3)", and under the Ordnance of August 1654.
Página 128 - Quell' altro che ne' fianchi è cosi poco, Michele Scotto fu, che veramente Delle magiche frode seppe il giuoco.
Página 161 - The Welshman left his hunting ; the Scot his fellowship with lice ;* the Dane his drinking party ; the Norwegian his raw fish. Lands were deserted of, their husbandmen ; houses of their inhabitants ; even whole cities migrated.
Página 127 - Noi leggevamo un giorno per diletto di Lancilotto, come amor lo strinse; soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto.
Página 175 - School, which is for the Education of Poor Children in the Rules and Principles of the Christian Religion as professed and taught in the Church of England...
Página 164 - British tongue, which, in a continued regular story and elegant style, related the actions of them all, from Brutus the first king of the Britons, down to Cadwallader the son of Cadwallo. At his request, therefore, though I had not made fine language my study, by collecting florid expressions, from other authors, yet contented with my own homely style, I undertook the translation of that book into Latin.
Página 62 - ... been here, and scratched out such ravishing blind harmony, such tunes of a thousand years old, with names enough to choke you, as have set all this learned body a dancing, and inspired them with due reverence for my old Bard his countryman, whenever he shall appear.
Página 13 - With these he arrived in few days at the Island of Cuba, where he sought out a place wherein with all quiet and repose he might make the dividend of the spoil they had got. They found in ready money two hundred and fifty thousand pieces of eight, besides all other merchandizes, as cloth linen, silks, and other goods.

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