The Celtic Review, Volume 1Willaim Hodge & Company, 1905 - Celtic languages Includes section "Book reviews". |
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acht adubairt agus ancient Aryan Book of Leinster Borrach Brendan Breton Bricne Brythonic Buinne Celtic Celtic language Celts century ceud chaidh chuir clan Columb Cille Conall Conchobar Cornish Cruachan Cumal Cymric Deirdre denam Derdri districts do'n Dubthach duine eile Eirinn Emain Emain Macha English fein Feinn Fergus Fergusa Fiacha Finn Fionn Flidais gach Gael Gaelic Garabh Goidelic Highland Illann interesting Ireland Irish king Kuno Meyer language Latin Legend leis literature Loch maith meaning Meave Medb mhic mise modern Naisi Norse Nuada Nuada Necht nuair Oilill Ossian Pictish Picts place-names poets Professor race robh Ruairidh saga Saxon Scotland Scots Scottish Scottish Gaelic song sons of Uisnech translation uair uile Uisnig Ulster Welsh word
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Page 160 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things And battles long ago; Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of today Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Page 272 - Wake many a glen serene, Ere you shall fade, ere you shall die, My Dark Rosaleen! My own Rosaleen! The Judgment Hour must first be nigh, Ere you can fade, ere you can die, My Dark Rosaleen!
Page 272 - Though he were even a pleasant salmon in the unchainable sea, Though he were a wild mountain eagle, he could scarce bear, he, This sharp sore sleet, these howling floods. O, mournful is my soul this night for Hugh Maguire ! Darkly as in a dream he strays ! Before him and behind Triumphs the tyrannous anger of the wounding wind, The wounding wind, that burns as fire...
Page 136 - Dans un autre ouvrage dont la popularité n'étoit pas moins grande que celle dont jouissoient les po'émes du cycle de Tristan, on trouve un passage où ce chevalier est nommé parmi les héros des romans à la mode de l'époque. Renard, déguisé en jongleur anglois, dit: Je fot savoir bon lai breton Et de Merlin et de Foucon, Del roi Artu et de Tristan, Del Chievre-foil, de Saint Brandan.
Page 178 - We, the Cornish, whereof certain of us understand no English, do utterly refuse the new service.
Page 87 - If I had golden store I would make a nice little boreen To lead straight up to his door, The door of the house of my storeen; Hoping to God not to miss The sound of his footfall in it. I have waited so long for his kiss, That for days I have slept not a minute. I thought, O my love! you were so — As the moon is, or sun on a fountain, And I thought after that you were snow, (The cold snow on top of the mountain; And I thought after that you were more Like God's lamp shining to find me, Or the bright...
Page 82 - Menapiaus ; and he traces to them the origin of the Manx nation and language. As regards Continental history, the great Goidelic element is now shown to have extended with more or less continuity from the Danube to the mouth of the Loire, and from the Tagus and the Po to the mouth of the Rhine.
Page 323 - Scone, says : — in the neighbourhood of the Grampians, but even through the whole county of Fife, not above two or three generations back. An anecdote communicated by a gentleman to the writer of this paper gives countenance to this report.
Page 20 - Combien je regrette Mon bras si dodu, Ma jambe bien faite, Et le temps perdu!
Page 87 - Ringleted youth of my love, With thy locks bound loosely behind thee, You passed by the road above, But you never came in to find me; Where were the harm for you If you came for a little to see me; Your kiss is a wakening dew Were I ever so ill or so dreamy.