 | Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph) - 1842 - 332 pages
...the first king of the Britains, down to Cadwallader the son of Cadwallo. At his request, therefore, though I had not made fine language my study, by collecting...flourishes, I must have tired my readers, by employing their attention more upon my words than upon the history. To you, therefore, Robert Earl of Gloucester,... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1848 - 552 pages
...the first king of the Britons, down to Cadwallader the son of Cadwallo. At his request, therefore, though I had not made fine language my study, by collecting...flourishes, I must have tired my readers, by employing their attention more upon my words than upon the history. To you, therefore, Robert earl of Gloucester,... | |
 | John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1848 - 546 pages
...the first king of the Britons, down to Cadwallader the son of Cadwallo. At his request, therefore, though I had not made fine language my study, by collecting...Latin. For if I had swelled the pages with rhetorical • Robert, earl of Gloucester was the natural son of king Henry I. by whoae command he swore fealty... | |
 | John Allen Giles, Gildas - 1848 - 572 pages
...first king of the Britons, down to Cadwallader the son of Cadwallo. At his request, therefore, though J had not made fine language my study, by collecting...Latin. For if I had swelled the pages with rhetorical * Robert, earl of Gloucester was the natural son of king Henry I. by whose command he swore fealty... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1869 - 440 pages
...the first king of the Britons, down to Cadwallader, the son of Cadwallo. At his request, therefore, though I had not made fine language my study, by collecting...style, I undertook the translation of that book into Latin."f Then follows the dedication of it to Robert, earl of Glocester, the brother of the Empress... | |
 | John Allen Giles - 1872 - 554 pages
...the first king of the Britons, down to Cadwallader the son of Cadwallo. At his request, therefore, though I had not made fine language my study, by collecting...Latin. For if I had swelled the pages with rhetorical " Robert, earl of Gloucester was the natural son of king Henry I. by whose command he swore fealty... | |
 | Arthur (king.) - 1880 - 520 pages
...Brutus the first king of the Britons down to Cadwallader the son of Cadwallo. At his request, therefore, though I had not made fine language my study, by collecting...undertook the translation of that book into Latin." It must be confessed that our historian's ideas of probability seem very unsatisfactory to the modern... | |
 | Sir Thomas Malory - 1880 - 490 pages
...Brutus the first king of the Britons down to Cadwallader the son of Cadwallo. At his request, therefore, though I had not made fine language my study, by collecting...undertook the translation of that book into Latin." It must be confessed that our historian's ideas of probability seem very unsatisfactory to the modern... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1898 - 622 pages
...required, something more in keeping with 1 Actug omnium continue et tr ordine perpulcris orationibtis proponebat. In the two sentences that immediately...flourishes, I must have tired my readers by employing their attention more upon my words than upon the history." — (Giles' Translation.) G the demands... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1905 - 322 pages
...from Brutus the first king of the Britons, down to Cadwallader the son of Cadwallo. At his request, though I had not made fine language my study by collecting...undertook the translation of that book into Latin." Did Geoffrey really have a Welsh or a Breton original, itself the outgrowth of Celtic imagination fed... | |
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... eloquence, and learned in foreign histories, offered me a very ancient book in the British tongue, which, in a continued regular story and elegant style, related the actions of them all, from Brutus the first king of the Britons, down to Cadwallader... 
