"Frith" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... arts that are definitely imitative. The visible aspect of life no longer contains for us the secret of life's spirit. Probably it never did contain it. And, if Mr. Barker's Waterloo Banquet and Mr. Frith's Marriage of the Prince of Wales are examples of healthy historic art, the less we have of such art the better. However, Mr. Bayliss is full of the most ardent faith and speaks quite gravely of genuine portraits of St. John, St. Peter and ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde
... which has been specially written with the view to its being easily performed at home by Boys and Girls. All the Stories in "A SHIPFUL OF CHILDREN" are from the pens of Authors with whose writings readers of "LITTLE FOLKS" are familiar, including the Author of "Prince Pimpernel," Henry Frith, Julia Goddard (who contributes a Fairy Story), Robert Richardson, the Author of "Claimed at Last," and others; while the Illustrations—humorous and otherwise, and about Forty in number—have been specially ...
— Little Folks (October 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... more on his green native braes of the Nith, He pluck'd the wild bracken, a frolicsome boy; He sported his limbs in the waves of the Frith; He trod the green heather in gladness and joy;— On his gallant grey steed to the hunting he rode, In his bonnet a plume, on his bosom a star; He chased the red deer to its mountain abode, And track'd the wild roe ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various
... original as yourself. There were two tribes amongst those whom we call Anglo-Saxons, that peopled England after the Britons were driven into Wales—namely, as you might guess, the Angles and the Saxons. The Angles ran from the Frith of Forth to the Trent; the Saxons from the Thames southward. The midland counties were in all likelihood a mixture of the two. There are, moreover, several foreign elements beyond this, in various counties. For instance, there is a large influx of Danish blood on the eastern coast, in parts of Lancashire, ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... Bydd twmpathau chwarau chwyrn; Dawnsio pan y darffo y dydd, A thelyn ar frith ddolydd: I'n hynys, pan ei hunir, Daw tawelwch, heddwch hir; A chywir heddwch a rhyddid Wneir y dydd hwnnw yn aur did; Ar wddwf Cymru rhoddir Y gadwen hon i gadw'n hir; Y drefn gaeth wriogaethol, Mwya'i ...
— Gwaith Alun • Alun
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