The Gwyneddion for 1832: Containing the Prize Poems, Etc., of the Beaumaris Eisteddfod and North Wales Literary SocietyWilliam Jones Hughes, 1839 - 201 páginas |
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Página xxxviii - ... is compelled to express himself in a language, •different from that in which his conceptions are formed, is, however •unconsciously, compelled to the act of translation. But we all of us know from a comparison of those classic writers which we read in the original with even the best translation, which modern talent and learning can supply, how much is lost in the course of such a transfusion : how much of fire, how much of originality evaporates, and. 'how greatly the sharp touches of genius...
Página 86 - Edward, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitain, To all to whom these present letters shall come greeting.
Página 73 - ... so the coach carried us to Bangor, where we ferried over into Anglesey, and then put my wife into the litter again; for never was or can come a coach into that part of the country...
Página xxxviii - British tongue had already attained a high degree of cultivation. Nor can I forget that in the pedigree of almost all existing tongues, and in the history of all civilized nations, a knowledge of your antiquities is necessary to a certain extent, whether to the Philologist or the Antiquary ; inasmuch as they were your ancestors, who...
Página 155 - Fuel honno ugain mil ac nn yn Wartheg blithion ; Ail, Gwydion fab Don a gedwis Wartheg Gosgordd Gwynedd Uch Conwy, ac yny Fuel honno ugain mil ac un ; Trydydd, Llawfrodedd Farfawc a fuelis Wartheg Nudd Hael fab Senyllt, ac yn y Fuel honno ugain mil ac un yn Wartheg blithion." — Tr. 85. His own cow went by the name of Cornillo, and was one of the three chief cows of the Island. — Trioedd y Meirch, xi. Of the no less remarkable personages, who tended the swine of the Island of Britain, an account...
Página xxxviii - I will not say the cold neglect, but the systematic and persevering hostility, of which, on the part of your English Rulers, the Welsh Language was for many years the object. It is needless and it would be painful to go back to the causes of that hostility, or to the manner in which it was carried on, but it is to the credit of your ancestors and yourselves that its effects were not successful.
Página 74 - Beaumaris. the same time in my Lord Bulkeley's yard : so that, God be thanked, we have now overcome all the difficulties of our land journey without any the least ill accident ; and we are now ready to go to Holyhead, and to embark as soon as the wind is fair, but it is now full in our teeth.
Página xxxviii - But even if the language of the Cymry were less ancient, or its stores less valuable, yet so long as it is the living language of half a million of our fellow Christians, and fellow subjects, it must richly deserve, and abundantly repay whatever labour or encouragement may be bestowed on its cultivation.
Página 73 - ... of us on horseback, (though, I confess, for my own particular, I went on foot) passed over Penman Mawr, at the foot of which, on this side, I met my Lord Bulkeley's coach and servants, but they told us they had escaped very narrowly being cast away...
Página 88 - Borough ; and then, in that case, they may be brought according to the liberties approved and hitherto reasonably used in our city of Hereford : Wherefore, We will and firmly enjoin for us and our heirs, that our Town of...