 The noble motto for all the proceedings of the old Welsh bards, — " In the face of the sun, and in the eye of light," was one completely after her own heart, and in perfect accordance with the transparent guilelessness of a character to which the conventional...  The Works of Mrs. Hemans: With a Memoir of Her Life - Pagina 43door Mrs. Hemans - 1857Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1822 - 456 pagina’s
...assent by subsequent proclamation. The Gorseddau, or meetings, were always held in the open air, and in the face of the sun and in the eye of light. The place was set apart by forming a circle of stones round the Maen Gorsedd." [The Stone of Assembly:—it... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1822 - 238 pagina’s
...assent by subsequent proclamation. The GoneAdau, or meetings, were always held in the open air, and in the face of the sun and in the eye of light. The place was set apart by forming a circle of stones round the Maen Gorsedd." [The Stone of Assembly:—it... | |
 | 1822 - 112 pagina’s
...account for the proceedings of the Eisteddvod. Why the Silurian Bards did not enter their protest " in the face of the sun, and in the eye of light" at the Bardic Assembly at Caermarthen, instead of waiting the portentous issue, and then, after the... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1823 - 336 pagina’s
...whilst the sun was above the horizon ; or, according to the expression employed on these occasions, " in the face of the sun, and in the eye of light." The places set apart for this purpose were marked out by a circle of stones, called the circle of federation.... | |
 | 1824 - 728 pagina’s
...they were open to the view of thousands of spectators ; and the rites performed therein were all done in " the face of the sun, and in the eye of light," as the British bards emphatically describe the celebration of them. Tacitus, indeed, the Roman historian,,... | |
 | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Mrs. Hemans - 1831 - 510 pagina’s
...whilst the sun was above the horizon ; or, according to the expression employed on these occasions, "in the face of the sun, and in the eye of light." The places set apart for this purpose were marked out ; by a circle of stones, called the circle of... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 pagina’s
...whilst the sun was above the horizon ; or, according to the expression employed on these occasions, "in the face of the sun, and in the eye of light." The places set apart for this purpose were marked out by a circle of stones, called the circle of federation.... | |
 | 1835 - 298 pagina’s
...ages, under the Dniidic theology, was venerated as the sacred altar on which the Druids offered, " in the face of the sun, and in the eye of light," their orisons to the Great Creator. The ground immediately around the stone is at present a bare sheep-walk,... | |
 | Henry Fothergill Chorley - 1836 - 722 pagina’s
...rejoice to have done with mystery, and to find myself, according to my favourite bardic expression, ' in the face of the sun, and in the eye of light' Do you not think it was a noble motto for all the proceedings of our ancient Welsh bards? and the title... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - 1836 - 472 pagina’s
...whilst the eun was above the horizon ; or, according to the expression employed on these occasions, "in the face of the sun, and in the eye of light." The places set apart for this purpose were marked out by a circle of »tones, called the circle of... | |
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