The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales, Volume 3

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Charles Wilkins
Daniel Owen, Howell and Company, 1883

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Página 165 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 66 - SPAKE full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
Página 9 - ... perfect in the spirits and the aspirings of men ! where the mind rises, where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign ; where her...
Página 480 - Morte d'Arthur. — SIR THOMAS MALORY'S BOOK OF KING ARTHUR AND OF HIS NOBLE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. The original Edition of CAXTON, revised for Modern Use. With an Introduction by Sir EDWARD STRACHEY, Bart. pp. xxxvii., 509. ' 'It is with perfect confidence that we recommend this edition of the old romance to every class of readers.
Página 156 - Living in an age of extraordinary Events and Revolutions, he learnt, as himself asserted, this Truth, which pursuant to his intention is here declared — " That all is Vanity which is not Honest, and that there is no solid Wisdom but in real Piety.
Página 164 - I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine...
Página 489 - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.
Página 106 - VIII's time, and coming home rich, and dying a bachelor, he gave that hall to the Company of Drapers, with other things, so that he is accounted one of their chiefest benefactors.
Página 105 - ... he had a great Wit, did argue no great Wisdom; it being one of the essential Properties of a wise Man, to provide for the main chance.
Página 480 - I pray you all, gentlemen and gentlewomen that readeth this book of Arthur and his knights, from the beginning to the ending, pray for me while I am on live, that God send me good deliverance, and when I am dead, I pray you all pray for my soul.

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