History of Ireland: the heroic period, المجلد 2 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
afar Aileel Amargin amongst ancient Ard-Rie bardic literature bards battalion battle Battle of Moy beautiful beheld Boyne bratta Brehon laws Cairbré camp Carna Cathvah chamber champion character chariot Clan Cailitin Clan Dēga Clanna Rury Conaill Carna Concobar Mac Nessa Connla Cormac countenance Cuculain cycle Dagda Danān death descended divine Dûn Eiré Emain Macha Emer Erin eyes father Fer-lōga Fergus Mac Roy Fiecha fierce Finn Fir-bolgs Fleeas Fomorian Genann giants gods hand heard heroes heroic literature High King host of Meave Ireland Irish king of Tara Læg Lægairé Liath Macha magic Mainey mighty Milesius Mōr Moy Tura Murthemney nation Nemedh Nemedian Nia-far night noble Ogham Olnemacta Ossianic palace plain princes Queen Meave Rath Red Branch Setanta shield shouted singing slain slew Slieve sons southwards spake spear sprang steeds stood Sualtam Tân thee tomb Ulla Ulster Ultonians voice warlike warriors Yeoha
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الصفحة 139 - She was a Goddess of the infant world; By her in stature the tall Amazon Had stood a pigmy's height: she would have ta'en Achilles by the hair and bent his neck; Or with a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel.
الصفحة 119 - The splendours of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not ; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil. When lofty thought Lifts a young heart above its mortal lair, And love and life contend in it, for what Shall be its earthly doom, the dead live there...
الصفحة 181 - What are these, So withered, and so wild in their attire; That look not like the inhabitants o
الصفحة 77 - On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose ; And in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetch'd, Even from the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
الصفحة 189 - And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength Glories ; for never since created man Met such embodied force, as named with these Could merit more than that small infantry Warred on by cranes...
الصفحة 77 - The Naiad. Sunbeams, upon distant hills • Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly.
الصفحة 335 - Down where the broad Zambesi River Glides away into some shadowy lagoon Lies the antelope, and hears the leaflets quiver, Shaken by the sultry breath of noon — • Hears the sluggish water ripple in its flowing; Feels the atmosphere, with fragrance all opprest; Dreams his dreams; and the sweetest is the knowing That above him, and around him, there is Rest. Centuries have faded into shadow. Earth is fertile with the dust of man's decay; Pilgrims all they were to some bright El-dorado, But they...
الصفحة 83 - Behold the sid before your eyes, It is manifest to you that it is a king's mansion Which was built by the firm Dagda; It was a wonder, a court, an admirable hill.
الصفحة 342 - The gods of Erin have deserted us, and the Clan Cailitin are now abroad, and what will happen to us henceforward I know not. But true and faithful thou hast ever been to me, and it is now seventeen years since we plighted friendship, and no angry word has ever passed between us since then.
الصفحة 345 - An early death and desolation shall be their lot, for we are powerful over men and over gods, and the kingdom that is seen, and the kingdom that is unseen belong to us," and they ringed him round, and chaunted obscene songs, and triumphed.