Y Cymmrodor: Embodying the Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Society of LondonThe Society, 1888 |
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Page 324 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing...
Page 324 - What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement, or labored mound, Thick wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Nor starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed Baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : Men, high-minded men...
Page 249 - After due preparations have been made for a sacrifice and a feast under the tree, they hail it as the universal healer and bring to the spot two white bulls, whose horns have never been bound before. A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth. Then they sacrifice the victims, praying that God may make his own gift to prosper with those upon whom he has bestowed it. They believe that a potion prepared from mistletoe will...
Page 323 - O'er dimpled sands, ye surges, gently flow, With sapphires edg'tl and. gold ! Loose-tressed morning breathes, And spreads her blushes with expansive glow ; But chiefly where heav'n's op'ning eye Sparkles at her saffron gate, How rich, how regal in his orient state ! Erelong he shall emblaze th...
Page 314 - In that egg the great power sat inactive a whole year of the Creator, at the close of which, by his thought alone, he caused the egg to divide itself; "13. And from its two divisions he framed the heaven above and the earth beneath : in the midst he placed the subtil ether, the eight regions, and the permanent receptacle of waters.
Page 322 - Long time the barge had danced along the deep, And on its glassy bosom seem'd to sleep ; But now a glittering isle arose in view ', Bounded with hillocks of a verdant hue : Fresh groves and roseate bowers appear'd above (Fit haunts, be sure, of pleasure and of love) ; And, higher still, a thousand...
Page 243 - Take a goat's horn and write the names of the seven sleepers thereon, making a knife -haft of it. The writing should begin at the blade and these are their names: Anaxeimeys, Malchus, Marsianus, Denys, Thon, Serapion, Constantynn. When the names are inscribed, lay the knife under the sick man's head unknown to him, and he will sleep '.
Page 316 - Let not a man be querulous even though in pain ; let him not injure another in deed or in thought ; let him not even utter a word, by which his fellow creature may suffer uneasiness; since that will obstruct his own progress to future beatitude.
Page 220 - The following passage from a letter of Bishop Lee, then President of Wales, to Cromwell, throws light on some aspects of Welsh life : " I have been lately informed that the king wished to make Wales shire ground, and to have justices of the peace and of gaol delivery as in England. But this will often simply be setting one thief to try another thief " ; also, " very few Welshmen in Wales above Brecknock have £10 a year in land, and their discretion less than their land." The proof that the policy...
Page 302 - THE DESTRUCTION OF TROY. Transcribed from the Facsimile of the Book of Leinster, and Translated, with a Glossarial Index of the Rarer Words, by Whitley Stokes. Crown 8vo, pp. xvi. and 188, paper boards. 1882. 18s. STOKES. — THREE MIDDLE-IRISH HOMILIES ON THE LIVES OF SAINTS— PATRICK, BRIGIT, AND COLUMBA. Edited by Whitley Stokes. Crown 8vo, pp. xii.