 ... the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret ; he is like a peasant building his hut on the site of Halicarnassus or Ephesus ; he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows...  Archaeologia Cambrensis - Page 3141898Full view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...builds, but what he builds is full of materials of •which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely — stones "not of this...building," but of an older architecture, greater, cun ninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1867 - 214 pages
...he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely ; — stones " not of...architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin ©r Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1867 - 218 pages
...materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely;—stones " not of this building," but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1883 - 340 pages
...he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely; — stones "not of this...architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Celtic literature - 1883 - 334 pages
...of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely;—stones "not of this building," but of an older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majesticaL In the mediaeval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh.... | |
 | Sir John Rhys, J. Gwenogvryn Evans - 1887 - 404 pages
...builds, but what he builds is full of b .1 materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely; — stones " not of this...architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. ln the mediaeval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh.'... | |
 | 1888 - 128 pages
...he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely; — stones "not of this...architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval stories of no Latin or Teutonic people does this strike one as in those of the Welsh.'... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - Wales - 1893 - 662 pages
...he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by a glimmering tradition merely — stones ' not of this...architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical. In the mediaeval 1 See Skene's Fwr Aitcieut Books of Wales, ii, 303 ; also ii, 108-9, where the fragment... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - Arthurian romances - 1894 - 462 pages
...; he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by glimmering tradition merely : stones ' not of this...architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical." Such were the impressions which the Welsh stories left on the minds of two men of genius, both of them... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1896 - 208 pages
...: he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows not the history, or knows by glimmering tradition merely ; stones ' not of this...architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical." The English literary history of the Arthurian legends from Malory to Tennyson is rather a curious history... | |
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