Mythical Bards and The Life of William WallaceHarvard University Press, 1920 - 381 strani A study of the authorship of the poem ascribed to Blind Harry. |
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... knowledge of classical mythology , astrology and heraldry , is more than critics nowadays are ready to believe . The poet's blindness , however , remains a matter of sore dispute . Some , indeed , have shown im- patience with the ...
... knowledge of classical mythology , astrology and heraldry , is more than critics nowadays are ready to believe . The poet's blindness , however , remains a matter of sore dispute . Some , indeed , have shown im- patience with the ...
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... knowledge of Gaelic a useful accomplishment . † In the west particularly , there then existed a veri- table school of bards ( in touch with the sennachies of Ireland ) whom courtly poets were wont to ridi- cule . Holland , in his Howlat ...
... knowledge of Gaelic a useful accomplishment . † In the west particularly , there then existed a veri- table school of bards ( in touch with the sennachies of Ireland ) whom courtly poets were wont to ridi- cule . Holland , in his Howlat ...
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... Knowledge of Blind Harry begins and ends with Major and Dunbar . Major in his History gives the first sure evidence of his connection with the Wallace , and Dunbar in his Lament gives the first sure testimony to his existence as a poet ...
... Knowledge of Blind Harry begins and ends with Major and Dunbar . Major in his History gives the first sure evidence of his connection with the Wallace , and Dunbar in his Lament gives the first sure testimony to his existence as a poet ...
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... knowledge of profit to him both as a minstrel and a seer . 99 In a somewhat later poem , The Prophisies of Rymour , Beid , and Marlyng , * the agent of the prophecies is " a little man who was held by one who met him mysteriously by the ...
... knowledge of profit to him both as a minstrel and a seer . 99 In a somewhat later poem , The Prophisies of Rymour , Beid , and Marlyng , * the agent of the prophecies is " a little man who was held by one who met him mysteriously by the ...
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... room enough on Aedh's palm . Fergus's men were dis- posed to be playful with Esirt , but the dwarf soon revealed such secret knowledge ( of the sort Merlin exhibited before Vortigern ) that the King ex- claimed : FAERY FOLK 73.
... room enough on Aedh's palm . Fergus's men were dis- posed to be playful with Esirt , but the dwarf soon revealed such secret knowledge ( of the sort Merlin exhibited before Vortigern ) that the King ex- claimed : FAERY FOLK 73.
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Stran 227 - And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
Stran 44 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
Stran 96 - Angels and ministers of grace defend us! Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Stran 233 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Stran 358 - For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature ; except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation...
Stran 270 - Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact...
Stran 5 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in faithless memory...
Stran 274 - ... and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.
Stran 281 - To be no more : sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity., To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Stran 242 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; •• Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear?