Galfredi Monumetensis Historia Britonum, novem cod. MSS. collatis ed. J.A. Giles. [Followed by] Pontici Virunnii historiæ Britannicæ libri sex, Volume 8 |
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Page 123 - Panchaii, et provincise nemoribus suis spoliabuntur. Superveniet namque vermis ignei anhelitus : qui emisso vapore comburet arbores. Egredientur ex eo septem leones capitibus hircorum turpati. Fœtore narium mulieres corrumpent: et proprias communes facient. Nesciet pater proprium filium : quia more pecudum lascivient. Superveniet vero gigas nequitise, qui oculorum acumine terrebit universos.
Page 124 - Fiet deinde piscis in aequore, qui sibilo serpentis revocatus coibit cum illo. Nascentur inde tres tauri fulgurantes, qui, consumptis pascuis, convertentur in arbores ; gestabit primus flagellum vipereum, et a post genito dorsum suum convertet ; nitetur ipse ei flagellum eripere, sed ab ultimo corripietur ; avertent mutuo a sese faciès, donee venenatum cyphum projecerint.
Page 45 - ... ipsorum Partholoim nomine, et adorato eo veniam et pacem rogavit. Dicebat autem se ex partibus Hispaniarum expulsum fuisse, et maria illa circuire ut locum mansionis haberet. Petebat etiam ab eo portiunculam Britannise ad inhabitandum, ne odiosum iter maris diutius pererraret: Annus enim cum dimidio jam elapsus fuerat, ex quo a patria sua pulsus per Oceanum cum sociis navigaverat.
Page xvi - Britannica.' And I myself have met with a manuscript history of our British affairs, written above a hundred years ago by Mr. John Lewis, and shortly to be published, wherein the author says, that he had the original of the British History in parchment written in the British tongue before Geoffrey's time, as he concludes from this circumstance, that in his book Geoffrey's preface was wanting, and the preface to his book was the second chapter of that published by Geoffrey. My...
Page 119 - Omnia hsec tria secula videbunt : donec sepulti reges in urbe Londoniarum propalabuntur. Redibit iterum fames : redibit mortalitas : et desolationem urbium dolebunt cives. Superveniet aper commercii, qui dispersos greges ad amissa pascua revocabit.
Page xiv - ... concerning the ancient British affairs, than any critics of the present age can pretend to. 2. That except William of Newburgh, about the end of the reign of Richard I, it met with no opponents even down to the seventeenth century, but was, on the contrary, quoted by all, in particular by Edward I, in a controversy before Boniface the Eighth. 3. That we see in this history the traces of venerable antiquity. 4. That the story of Brute, and the descent of the Britons from the Trojans, was universally...
Page 197 - Ganhumarse reginse annunciatum est, confestim desperans, ab Eboraco ad urbem Legionum diffugit, atque in templo Julii martyris, inter monachas ejusdem caste vivere proposuit, et vitam monachalem suscepit.
Page 202 - Capta tandem prsedicta civitate et succensa, commisit prselium cum Caretico, et eum fugavit ultra Sabrinam in Guallias. Mox depopulans agros, ignem cumulavit in finitimas quasque civitates : qui non quievit accensus, donec cunctam pene superficiem insulse, a mari usque ad mare exussit : ita ut cunctse colonise crebris arietibus, omnesque coloni cum sacerdotibus ecclesiae, mucronibus undique micantibus, ac flammis crepitantibus, simul humi sternerentur.
Page 213 - ungebantur reges non per deum, sed qui ceteris crudeliores exstarent, et paulo post ab unctoribus non pro veri examinatione trucidabantur aliis electis trucioribus.
Page 123 - Claudiocestria leonem, qui diversis praeliis inquietabit serpentem ; conculcabit eum sub pedibus suis, apertisque faucibus terrebit ; cum regno tandem litigabit leo, et terga nobilium transcendet. Superveniet taurus litigio, et leonem dextro pede percutiet ; expellet eum per regni diversoria, sed cornua sua in mûris Ехош'зз confringet.