The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids, Ascertained by National Documents; and Compared with the General Traditions and Customs of Heathenism, as Illustrated by the Most Eminent Antiquaries of Our Age. With an Appendix, Containing Ancient Poems and Extracts, with Some Remarks on Ancient British Coins...J. Booth, 1809 - 648 páginas This 1809 volume contains a study of the mythology and rites of the British Druids ascertained bynational documents and compared with the general traditions and customs of heathenism. |
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... poem we cite from is denominated the Pacification " of Lludd . " 66 The critic then gives his original , with the follow- ing translation : " A numerous race , and fierce , as fame reports them , " Were thy first colonists , Britain ...
... poem we cite from is denominated the Pacification " of Lludd . " 66 The critic then gives his original , with the follow- ing translation : " A numerous race , and fierce , as fame reports them , " Were thy first colonists , Britain ...
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... poem , Pacification of Lludd , and a line , which informs us it was the pacification of Lludd and Llefelis , may furnish a clue to the æra of these invaders . Lludd and Llefelis are repre- sented , by the Welsh chronicles , as brothers ...
... poem , Pacification of Lludd , and a line , which informs us it was the pacification of Lludd and Llefelis , may furnish a clue to the æra of these invaders . Lludd and Llefelis are repre- sented , by the Welsh chronicles , as brothers ...
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... poem . In order to determine this point , I shall exhibit the whole , for it is not long , with a translation as close and as faithful , to say the least of it , as that which we have in the preceding critique . YMARWAR LLUDD . - Bychan ...
... poem . In order to determine this point , I shall exhibit the whole , for it is not long , with a translation as close and as faithful , to say the least of it , as that which we have in the preceding critique . YMARWAR LLUDD . - Bychan ...
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... poem is Cæsar's second invasion . The particle dy , in composition , conveys the sense of iteration . The district of Troy , whence the Romans deduced their origin . When the oracle commanded Æneas and his company- Dardanidæ duri , quæ ...
... poem is Cæsar's second invasion . The particle dy , in composition , conveys the sense of iteration . The district of Troy , whence the Romans deduced their origin . When the oracle commanded Æneas and his company- Dardanidæ duri , quæ ...
Página xiv
... poem relates only to the invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar ; and that it contains not the most distant hint of its first colonists . The strong con- trast has changed its position : but I abstain from farther remarks . Criticism may ...
... poem relates only to the invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar ; and that it contains not the most distant hint of its first colonists . The strong con- trast has changed its position : but I abstain from farther remarks . Criticism may ...
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Página 529 - Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Página 475 - Godhead; so that they arc ** without excuse : because that, when they knew God, they " glorified him not, as God, neither were thankful; but " became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart *' was darkened. " Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, *' and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an. *' image, made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and " four-footed beasts, and creeping things...
Página 475 - Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves : *3 who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature " more than the Creator, who is or, rather.
Página 217 - I have fed out of the drum I have drunk out of the cymbal I have entered your bridal chamber; and lo, I am the sole witness to my homecoming.
Página 175 - And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil : but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us ; it was a chance that happened to us.
Página 224 - ... on all sides, were at length quenched by a shower of cloudborne water, poured down by the immortal Eendra. And now a heterogeneous stream of the concocted juices of various trees and plants ran down into the briny flood.
Página 459 - He was companion of Canawon Cynllaith, the' offspring of the goddess of slaughter, whom Aneurin thus commemorates, in the songs of the Gododin : " If, in the banquet of mead and wine, the Saxons sacrificed to Slaughter, the mother of Spoliation; the energetic Eidiol also honoured her before the mount, in the presence of the god of victory, the king who rises in light, and ascends the sky.
Página 246 - To the brave, to the magnanimous, to the amiabk, to " the generous, who boldly embarks, the ascending stone of " the Bards will prove the harbour of life ! It has asserted the "praise of HEILYN, the mysterious impeller of the sky: '•' and, till the doom shall its symbol be continued.
Página 175 - And take the ark of the LORD, and lay it upon the cart ; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
Página 413 - An egg, containing in it the elements of life, was thought no improper emblem of the ark, in which were preserved the rudiments of the future world : hence, in the Dionusiaca, and in other mysteries, one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg. By this, as we are informed by Porphyry, was signified the world. It seems to have been a favourite symbol, and very ancient, and we find it adopted among many nations.