 | 1898 - 458 pagina’s
...purposes of the compilers. Concerning an appropriation from some source, Matthew Arnold says : — 2 " The very first thing that strikes one in reading the...antiquity of which he does not fully possess the secret; lie is like a peasant building his hut on the site of Halicarnassus or Ephesus; he builds, but what... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pagina’s
...older, pagan, mythological world. The very first thing that strikes one, in reading the Jlfabinogian, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1867 - 218 pagina’s
...his place ? These are no mediaeval personages; they belong to an older, pagan, mythological world. The very first thing that strikes one, in reading...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 334 pagina’s
...an older, pagan, mythological world. The very first thing that strikes one, in reading the MaUnogwn, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging...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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 340 pagina’s
...older, pagan, mythological world. The very first thing that strikes one, in reading the McMnogion, is how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he " ~>ea not fully possess the secret ; he is like a peasant building his hut on the site of Halicarnassus... | |
 | Sir John Rhys, J. Gwenogvryn Evans - 1887 - 404 pagina’s
...in the grey monotony of my undergraduate days ; but l will only cite the following passage : — ' The very first thing that strikes one, in reading...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 b .1 materials of which... | |
 | 1888 - 128 pagina’s
...and lures us on to lose ourselves in what is so remote.' — DAILY NEWS, Sefttmier, 1887. • • « 'The very first thing that strikes one, in reading...secret; he is like a peasant building his hut on the site of Halicarnassns or Ephesus ; he builds, but what he builds is full of materials of which he knows... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1888 - 558 pagina’s
...evidently the mediaeval story-teller [the oldest manuscript of these tales is of the fourteenth century] is pillaging an antiquity of which he does not fully...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... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1893 - 662 pagina’s
...years ago than I care to remember. He was lecturing on Celtic literature at Oxford, and observing " how evidently the mediaeval story-teller is pillaging...fully possess the secret ; he is like a peasant", Matthew Arnold went on to say, "building on the site of Halicarnassus or Ephesus ; he builds, but what... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 464 pagina’s
...mythological world. The first thing that strikes one in reading the Mabinogion is how evidently the medieval story-teller is pillaging an antiquity of which he...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... | |
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Mabinogion, is how evidently 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... 
