 | 1849 - 420 pages
...flowers. He has now come to man's stature, and he is the comeliest youth that was ever beheld." So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of...baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd. After she had become his bride, and they had feasted, said Gwydion, "It is not easy for a man to maintain... | |
 | Mabinogion - 1849 - 414 pages
...flowers. He has now come to man's stature, and he is the comeliest youth that was ever beheld." So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of...baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd. After she had become his bride, and they had feasted, said Gwydion, "It is not easy for a man to maintain... | |
 | Taliesin - 1858 - 390 pages
...All creatures are journeying after food, Except minstrels and idle fellows, and manifest thieves. I)o not disparage mixed learning or minstrelsy ; For God...punishment, turned her into an owl, while Llew Llaw Gyffes was changed into an eagle. Kai, the steward and companion of Arthur, could render himself when... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - 840 pages
..." we will seek, I and thou, by charms and illusions, to form a wife for him out of flowers. So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of...saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of IWei-Aspect." Celtic romance is full of exquisite touches like that, s\MjmiL£ the delicacy of the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
..." we will seek, land thou, by charms and illusions, to form a wife for him out of flowers. So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of...saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of FlowerAspect" Celtic romance is full of exquisite touches like that, showing the delicacy of the Celt's... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1866 - 826 pages
...blossoms of tho meadow•Ttit. and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful tiat nun ever saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Dourer-Aspect." Celtic romance is full of exquisite touches like that, •kiffiag the delicacy of the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 214 pages
..." we will seek, I and thou, by charms and illusions, to form a wife for him out of flowers. So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of...maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever * Rhyme, — the most striking characteristic of our modern poetry as distinguished from that of the... | |
 | 1870 - 694 pages
...flowers. He is now come to man's stature, and is the comeliest youth that was ever beheld.' " So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of...baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd " (the fair-flowered face). This wife of flowers manifested no better disposition than some of coarser mould.... | |
 | 1870 - 612 pages
...flowers. He is now come to man's stature, and is the comeliest youth that was ever beheld.' " So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of...baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd " (the fair-flowered face). This wife of flowers manifested no better disposition than some of coarser mould.... | |
 | 1906 - 730 pages
...Arianrod, whose mother has prophesied or laid a spell against that youth's wedding a mortal maiden. Math " took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of...the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw." In the story of Cuchullin, Fand, the Fairy- woman, is said to " have been formed from the flowers that... | |
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So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of the broom, and the blossoms of the meadow-sweet, and produced from them a maiden, the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. 
