Taliesin; or, The bards and druids of Britain. A tr. of the remains of the earliest Welsh bards, and an examination of the bardic mysteries, by D.W. Nash, Page 511858 |
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... appear , the compositions to which so remote a date has been attributed are far less diffi- cult to read than many of those of the known bards of the twelfth , thirteenth , or fourteenth centuries . The explanation of this fact is , not ...
... appear , the compositions to which so remote a date has been attributed are far less diffi- cult to read than many of those of the known bards of the twelfth , thirteenth , or fourteenth centuries . The explanation of this fact is , not ...
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... appears to have fallen on all the British annals of the next three centuries . British history , during this period , is therefore a mere hypothesis ; and in this truly Cimmerian darkness , we can neither admit nor deny the assertion ...
... appears to have fallen on all the British annals of the next three centuries . British history , during this period , is therefore a mere hypothesis ; and in this truly Cimmerian darkness , we can neither admit nor deny the assertion ...
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... appears readily to have credited the fantastic reveries of Edward Wil- liams , otherwise called Iolo Morganwg , and the exaggerations , if not forgeries , with which he pretended to support them . The Essay on Bardism , published in ...
... appears readily to have credited the fantastic reveries of Edward Wil- liams , otherwise called Iolo Morganwg , and the exaggerations , if not forgeries , with which he pretended to support them . The Essay on Bardism , published in ...
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... appears 1 that the Myvyrian MSS . alone , now deposited in the British Museum , amount to 47 volumes of poetry of various sizes , containing about 4700 pieces of poetry , in 16,000 pages , besides about 2000 englynion or epigrammatic ...
... appears 1 that the Myvyrian MSS . alone , now deposited in the British Museum , amount to 47 volumes of poetry of various sizes , containing about 4700 pieces of poetry , in 16,000 pages , besides about 2000 englynion or epigrammatic ...
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... appears that some part of the MSS . above alluded to was transcribed in the time of Charles I. by Robert ap Huw , of Bodwigen , in Anglesey , from William Penllyn's book . This William Penllyn is recorded among the successful candidates ...
... appears that some part of the MSS . above alluded to was transcribed in the time of Charles I. by Robert ap Huw , of Bodwigen , in Anglesey , from William Penllyn's book . This William Penllyn is recorded among the successful candidates ...
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