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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... wonderfully sound historical instinct , dis- tinguishing truth from the fables with which the Scottish annals were then encrusted . " Major , no doubt , desired to distinguish truth from fable , and pompously put on parade his judicial ...
... wonderfully sound historical instinct , dis- tinguishing truth from the fables with which the Scottish annals were then encrusted . " Major , no doubt , desired to distinguish truth from fable , and pompously put on parade his judicial ...
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... wonderful stories of the prowess of Wallace , floating in tradition and picked up by the way by the wandering minstrel . " * But fary , " of course , is merely " faery , " fairyland , † and " farleis " means " wonders . " Both these ...
... wonderful stories of the prowess of Wallace , floating in tradition and picked up by the way by the wandering minstrel . " * But fary , " of course , is merely " faery , " fairyland , † and " farleis " means " wonders . " Both these ...
Stran 35
... wonderful and incredible things did he also relate of this Balkin . . . . . affirming that he was shaped like a satyr , and fed upon the air , having wife and children to the number of twelve thou- sand , which were the brood of the ...
... wonderful and incredible things did he also relate of this Balkin . . . . . affirming that he was shaped like a satyr , and fed upon the air , having wife and children to the number of twelve thou- sand , which were the brood of the ...
Stran 82
... wonderful abode , and there informed him of the future history of Ireland , the length of his reign , and the names of his successors for many centuries afterwards . Concerning Conn's experience Nutt remarks : * " It is instructive to ...
... wonderful abode , and there informed him of the future history of Ireland , the length of his reign , and the names of his successors for many centuries afterwards . Concerning Conn's experience Nutt remarks : * " It is instructive to ...
Stran 183
... wonderful tales . " Success and benedic- tion , Caeilte ! ' Patrick cried , and where is Bro- gan ? be that tale written down by thee , so that to the chiefs of the world's latter time it prove a diversion . ' And Brogan penned it ...
... wonderful tales . " Success and benedic- tion , Caeilte ! ' Patrick cried , and where is Bro- gan ? be that tale written down by thee , so that to the chiefs of the world's latter time it prove a diversion . ' And Brogan penned it ...
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Æsir Alfred Nutt Amergin ancient antiquity appears ballad belief Billie Blin Blaise Blind Harry Caeilte called Celtic Celts century Chaucer chief chroniclers deeds Dionysus divine Dunbar dwarf English epic fable faery fairy ferlys fiction Finn Gaelic genius ghost gods Greek Gwydion Harry's Hávamál heralds hero Hibbert Lectures Homer inspiration Interlude Ireland Irish John King Kouretes land Latin Lord lore Major Master Blair Merlin minstrel mortals Muses mysterious myth mythical narrative nature Neilson noble Nutt Odin Oisin Old Norse Orpheus Ossian otherworld pagan passage Patrick person personage poem poesy poet poet's poetic poetry prophecies prophets recited remarks Rhŷs romance says Scotland Scots Scottish Silva Gadelica Snorri song spirit story supernatural tale Taliessin tell Thomas Rhymer thou tion Tiresias tradition trans truth Voyage of Bran Wallace Wallace-poet Wallace's William wonderful words writes written wrote
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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?