 | 1898 - 458 σελίδες
...mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret; lie is like a peasant building his hut on the site of...architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical." Again, with reference to the story of Kilhwch and Olwen, he recognises3 that — 1 Lady Guest, in tlie... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 σελίδες
...Jlfabinogian, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret ; he is like a peasant...building," but of an older architecture, greater, cun ninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 214 σελίδες
...Mabinogion, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret.; he is like a peasant...more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin ©r Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh. Kilhwch, in the story, already quoted,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 218 σελίδες
...Mabinogion, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret; he is like a peasant...not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely;—stones " not of this building," but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical.... | |
 | Sir John Rhys, J. Gwenogvryn Evans - 1887 - 404 σελίδες
...MABINOGION, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret ; he is like a peasant...Ephesus ; he builds, but what he builds is full of b .1 materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely; — stones... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1888 - 558 σελίδες
...manuscript of these tales is of the fourteenth century] is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret ; he is like a peasant...full of materials of which he knows not the history." to account for the interchange of any literary materials. The British lays communicated to the French... | |
 | 1888 - 128 σελίδες
...MABINOGION, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret; he is like a peasant building his hut on the site of Halicarnassns or Ephesus ; he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows not... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1893 - 662 σελίδες
...does not fully possess the secret ; he is like a peasant", Matthew Arnold went on to say, "building on the site of Halicarnassus or Ephesus ; he builds,...greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval 1 See Skene's Fwr Aitcieut Books of Wales, ii, 303 ; also ii, 108-9, where the fragment of the poem... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 464 σελίδες
...the Mabinogion is how evidently the medieval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret : he is like a peasant...materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by glimmering tradition merely : stones ' not of this building,' but of an older architecture, greater,... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 462 σελίδες
...; he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by glimmering tradition merely : stones ' not of this...architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical." Such were the impressions which the Welsh stories left on the minds of two men of genius, both of them... | |
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Mabinogion, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret.; he is like a peasant building his hut on the site of Halicarnassus or Ephesus ; he builds, but what he builds is full of... 
