... of English literature cannot be disconnected from the lively Celtic wit in which it has one of its sources. The Celts do not form an utterly distinct part of our mixed population. But for early, frequent, and various contact with the race that in... Y Cymmrodor - Page 501877Full view - About this book
| Henry Morley - 1867 - 456 pages
...early, frequent, and various contact with the race that in its half-barbarous days invented Oisin's dialogues with St. Patrick, and that quickened afterwards...Germanic England would not have produced a Shakespeare. The recollections of the past on which we are now dwelling are not to be taken as mere antiquarian... | |
| Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1867 - 216 pages
...early, frequent, and various contact with the race that in its halfbarbarous days invented Ossian's dialogues with St. Patrick, and that quickened afterwards...France, Germanic England would not have produced a Shakspeare." But there Mr. Morley leaves the matter. He indicates this Celtic element and influence,... | |
| Robert Jones, Thomas Powel - Wales - 1877 - 638 pages
...language, but that we wish it to live side by side with that more ancient one. These Eisted1lfodau are valuable, and encourage a desire for most honourable...modern poetry, has originated in Celtic literature. .Now let me remind you that wo are indebted not only to the English, but to the Welsh language also,... | |
| Wales - 1877 - 368 pages
...scientific knowledge which has not been thoroughly searched into and explored. I will quote from Slorley, an able English critic, who said "The main current...even rhyme, as one of the most important parts of modem poetry, has originated in Celtic literature. Now let me remind you that we are indebted not only... | |
| Brother Azarias - Anglo-Saxon literature - 1879 - 226 pages
...its half -barbarous days invented Oisin's dialogues with St. Patrick, and that quickened afterward the Northmen's blood in France, Germanic England would not have produced a Shakespeare." * Mr. Matthew Arnold brought to bear upon the subject his trained critical talent, and gives the result... | |
| Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1883 - 340 pages
...early, frequent, and various contact with the race that in its half-barbarous days invented Ossian's dialogues with St. Patrick, and that quickened afterwards...France, Germanic England would not have produced a Shakspeare." But there Mr. Morley leaves the matter. He indicates this Celtic element and influence,... | |
| Henry Morley - English literature - 1887 - 400 pages
...early, J frequent, and various contact with the race that in its halfbarbarous days invented Oisin's dialogues with St. Patrick, and that quickened afterwards...Germanic England would not have produced a Shakespeare. The recollections of the past on which we are now dwelling are not to be taken as mere antiquarian... | |
| Literature - 1892 - 954 pages
...early frequent and various contact with the race which in its half barbarous days invented Oisin's dialogues with St. Patrick, and that quickened afterwards the Northmen's blood in France and Germany, England would not have produced a Shakespeare." Certain it is, I think, that but for the... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - English language - 1896 - 308 pages
...early, frequent, and various contact with the race that in its half-barbarous days invented Ossian's dialogues with St. Patrick, and that quickened afterwards...in France, Germanic England would not have produced 30 a Shakspeare." But there Mr. Morley leaves the matter. He indicates this Celtic element and influence,... | |
| Brander Matthews - Americanisms - 1901 - 394 pages
...its half-barbarous days 16 invented Ossian's dialogues with St. Patrick, and that quickened afterward the Northmen's blood in France, Germanic England would not have produced a Shakspere." Here we see Morley declaring that the Celt had "quickened the Northmen's blood in France";... | |
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