Welsh sketches, by the author of 'Proposals for Christian union'.

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Darling & Son, 1852

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Stran 134 - In these lay a [great] multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered [waiting for the moving of the water]. 4 [For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water...
Stran 48 - I have suffered hunger for the Son of the Virgin. I have been fostered in the land of the Deity, I have been teacher to all intelligences, I am able to instruct the whole universe. I shall be until the day of doom on the face of the earth ; And it is not known whether my body is flesh or fish. Then I was for nine months In the womb of the hag Ceridwen ; I was originally little Gwion, And at length I am Taliesin.
Stran 109 - I could not even promise that easily or hastily without the advice of my friends." At length, however, when I perceived that he was anxious for my services, though I knew not why, I promised him that, if my life was spared, I would return to him after six months, with such a reply as should be agreeable to him as well as advantageous to me and mine. With this answer he was satisfied, and when I had given him a pledge to return at the appointed...
Stran 48 - I have been three periods in the prison of Arianrod ; I have been the chief director of the work of the tower of Nimrod ; I am a wonder whose origin is not known. I have been in Asia with Noah in the ark...
Stran 113 - I had in hand, for want of assistance, (for it was then the height of the corn harvest, and not a man was to be found whose time and hands were unoccupied,) I employed a great part of one afternoon in digging in search of this stone, and having discovered it, I cleared away all the earth about it. Evening brought the farmers and their workmen home, and Mr. Christopher Wilkins, and the late Mr. David Jones, (two very respectable gentlemen farmers) on seeing this stone, ordered their men to assist...
Stran 101 - ... that doctrine conquered which had on its side the voice of the universal Christian consciousness, and which found a ready point of union in the whole life and experience of the church, as expressed in its prayers and in all its liturgical forms.
Stran 11 - The three primary requisites of poetical Genius; an eye that can see Nature, a heart that can feel Nature, and a resolution that dares follow nature.
Stran 8 - ... as pupils, who treat them with the greatest respect. For it is they who decide in all controversies, whether public or private, and they judge all causes, whether of murder, of a disputed inheritance, or of the boundaries of estates. They assign both rewards and punishments, and whoever refuses to abide by their sentence, whether he be in a public or private station, is forbidden to be present at the sacrifices to the gods. , This is in fact...
Stran 139 - ... Aberdaron I took boat for Bardsey Island, which lies about three leagues to the west. The mariners seemed tinctured with the piety of the place ; for they had not rowed far, but they made a full stop, pulled off their hats, and offered up a short prayer. After doubling a headland, the island appears full in view ; we passed under the lofty mountain which forms one side ; after doubling the further end, we put into a little sandy creek, bounded by low rocks, as is the whole level part On landing,...
Stran 47 - Primary chief bard am I to Elphin, And my original country is the region of the summer stars ; Idno and Heinin called me Merddin, At length every king will call me Taliesin. I was with my Lord in the highest sphere, On the fall of Lucifer into the depth of hell : I have borne a banner before Alexander; I know the names of the stars from north to south...

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