Wales: A National Magazine for the English Speaking Parts of Wales, Volume 2Sir Owen Morgan Edwards Hughes, 1895 |
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Page 190 - And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.
Page 344 - Where the evening gilds the tide; How close and small the hedges lie ! What streaks of meadows cross the eye ! A step methinks may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's face, Ey'd through hope's deluding glass...
Page 343 - Now, I gain the mountain's brow, What a landscape lies below ! No clouds, no vapours intervene ; But the gay, the open scene Does the face of Nature show, In all the hues of Heaven's bow ! And, swelling to embrace the light, Spreads around beneath the sight.
Page 361 - Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Page 394 - I, AB do swear, that I do from my heart abhor, detest and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 344 - Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view! The fountain's fall, the river's flow, The woody valleys, warm and low; The windy summit, wild and high, Roughly rushing on the sky! The pleasant seat, the ruined tower, The naked rock, the shady bower; The town and village, dome and farm, Each give each a double charm As pearls upon an .Mthiup's arm.
Page 23 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 394 - ... dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal, and that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm...
Page 160 - And in the youth's hand were two spears of silver, sharp, well-tempered, headed with steel, three ells in length, of an edge to wound the wind, and cause blood to flow, and swifter than the fall of the dewdrop from the blade of reed-grass upon the earth when the dew of June is at the heaviest.
Page 198 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...