Y Cymmrodor: Embodying the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion of London, Volumes 1-2Robert Jones, Thomas Powel The Society., 1877 - Wales |
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... things that perish for the words that live , - ' Twas a poor wage indeed ! Yet not even this was thine ; The great ones of thy land took little heed For souls like thine , pent by the vulgar crowd ; Hungering for pelf and place with ...
... things that perish for the words that live , - ' Twas a poor wage indeed ! Yet not even this was thine ; The great ones of thy land took little heed For souls like thine , pent by the vulgar crowd ; Hungering for pelf and place with ...
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... things , such as are to be found in some museums , heaped together in bower - birdish fashion , where they gratify the senses , without nourishing the intellect . Let us by all means have rare and pretty specimens , if they can claim ...
... things , such as are to be found in some museums , heaped together in bower - birdish fashion , where they gratify the senses , without nourishing the intellect . Let us by all means have rare and pretty specimens , if they can claim ...
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... things curious or supposed to be curious , heaped together in disorderly piles , or neatly spread out with ingenious disregard of their relations . The only label attached to nine specimens out of ten is , Presented by Mr. or Mrs. So ...
... things curious or supposed to be curious , heaped together in disorderly piles , or neatly spread out with ingenious disregard of their relations . The only label attached to nine specimens out of ten is , Presented by Mr. or Mrs. So ...
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... thing to know a book by its cover , and quite another to be familiar with its contents . As long as we look merely on the out- side , our acquaintance with the animal kingdom must needs be superficial and unsound . External characters ...
... thing to know a book by its cover , and quite another to be familiar with its contents . As long as we look merely on the out- side , our acquaintance with the animal kingdom must needs be superficial and unsound . External characters ...
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... thing for a public museum to depend thus upon the support or interest of a single individual , or even on a few amateurs , such as form our local natural history clubs ; and it has in- deed often happened that when the leading ...
... thing for a public museum to depend thus upon the support or interest of a single individual , or even on a few amateurs , such as form our local natural history clubs ; and it has in- deed often happened that when the leading ...
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Page 4 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Page 4 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps...
Page 31 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Page 4 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 111 - Fie, fie, fie,' now would she cry ; ' Teru, teru ! ' by and by ; That to hear her so complain, Scarce I could from tears refrain ; For her griefs, so lively shown, Made me think upon mine own. Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain ' None takes pity on thy pain : Senseless trees they cannot hear thee ; Ruthless...
Page 86 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 3 - Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man who is a cunning player on an harp : and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
Page 3 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp ? 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
Page 117 - PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country'].
Page 3 - Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets com'ing down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: and the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.