Y Traethodydd: am y fleyddyn ..., Volume 31

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Argraffwyd a Chyhoeddwyd Gan T. Gee a'i Fab, 1877
 

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Page 58 - Indian scholars and missionaries, where he most exorbitantly proposes a whole hundred pounds a year for himself, forty pounds for a fellow, and ten for a student. His heart will break if his deanery be not taken from him, and left to your excellency's disposal. I discouraged him by the coldness of courts and ministers, who will interpret all this as impossible, and a vision, but nothing will do...
Page 347 - Exegi monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum.
Page 58 - I am now to mention his errand. He is an absolute philosopher, with regard to money, titles, and power, and for three years past has been struck with a notion of founding a University at Bermudas, by a charter from the Crown.
Page 95 - For my bark, to pilot it To some calm and blooming cove, Where for me and those I love May a windless bower be built, Far from passion, pain, and guilt...
Page 59 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose, for truth and sense, The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 58 - I humbly entreat your excellency, either to use such persuasions as will keep one of the first men in this kingdom for learning and virtue quiet at home ; or assist him by your credit, to compass his romantic design ; which, however, is very noble and generous, and directly proper for a great person of your excellent education to encourage.
Page 106 - Oh ! none ; — another busy brood of beings Will shoot up in the interim, and none Will hold him in remembrance. I shall sink As sinks a stranger in the crowded streets Of busy London : — Some short bustle's caused, A few inquiries, and the crowds close in, And all's forgotten.
Page 107 - Henceforth, oh, world, no more of thy desires ! No more of hope ! the wanton vagrant Hope ! I abjure all. — Now other cares engross me, And my tired soul, with emulative haste, Looks to its God, and prunes its wings for Heaven.
Page 235 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Page 256 - HISTORY of the CATHOLIC CHURCH of JESUS CHRIST from the Death of St. John to the Middle of the Second Century.

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