 | 1876 - 1022 pages
...and there ; such as that of the maiden who was made by charms and illusions out of flowers. " So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of...the fairest and most graceful that man ever saw." Wherever another heroine Olwen, " of slender eyebrow, pure of heart," treads, four white trefoils spring... | |
 | 1877 - 538 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 - 1877 - 538 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...saw. And they baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodenwedd. After she had become his bride, and they had feasted, said Gwydion, " It is not easy for... | |
 | Robert Jones, Thomas Powel - 1877 - 638 pages
..."flower face", of old romance — of whom we read in the tale of Math, the son of Mathonwy, that " 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. And... | |
 | 1878 - 260 pages
..."flower face", of old romance —of whom we read in the tale of Math, the son of Mathonwy, that " 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. And... | |
 | 1878 - 532 pages
..."flower face", of old romance —of whom we read in the tale of Math, the son of Mathonwy, that " 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. And... | |
 | 1878 - 242 pages
..."flower face", of old romance — of whom we read in the tale of Math, the son of Mathonwy, that " 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. And... | |
 | Brother Azarias - 1879 - 226 pages
...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 broom and the blossoms of the...baptized her and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd, or Flower- Aspect.1 This aerial play of fancy that couples the idea of a flower with that of a maiden... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1880 - 352 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...fairest and most graceful that man ever saw. And they baptised her, and gave her the name of Flower- Aspect. ' Celtic romance is full of exquisite touches... | |
 | 1881 - 534 pages
...will seek, I and thou, by charms and illusion, to form a wife for him out of flowers." ... So they took the blossoms of the oak, and the blossoms of...baptized her, and gave her the name of Blodeuwedd. In reading this and the like stories, it must be kept in mind that cows and swine were valuable in... | |
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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. 
