 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - Wales - 1822 - 238 pages
...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... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - Wales - 1822 - 456 pages
...stated times, in some central or exposed part of the country*, or, according to the Bardic maxim, " in the face of the sun and in the eye of light." Such was the primitive character of this ancient convention ; but how long it was retained, there are... | |
 | Bards and bardism - 1822 - 112 pages
...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 - English drama - 1823 - 336 pages
...in the open air, on some conspicuous situation, whilst the sun was above the horizon ; or, according to the expression employed on these occasions, " in...federation. The presiding bard stood on a large stone, (Maen Oorsedd, or the stone of assembly), in the centre. The sheathing of a sword upon this stone was the... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1824 - 728 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1831 - 510 pages
...in the open air, on some conspicuous situation, whilst the sun was above the horizon ; or, according to the expression employed on these occasions, "in...federation. The presiding bard stood on a large stone (Maen WHERE met our bards of old? — the glorious throng, They of the mountain and the battle-song 7 They... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans, Reginald Heber - 1833 - 526 pages
...in the open air, on some conspicuous situation, whilst the sun was above the horizon ; or, according to the expression employed on these occasions, "in...circle of stones, called the circle of federation. Gorsedd, or the stone of assembly), in the centre. The sheathing of a sword upon this stone wu the... | |
 | 1835 - 298 pages
...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,... | |
 | Mrs. Hemans - English poetry - 1836 - 472 pages
...in the open air, on some conspicuous situation, whilst the eun was above the horizon ; or, according to the expression employed on these occasions, "in...apart for this purpose were marked out by a circle of »tones, called the circle of federation. The presiding bard stood on a large stone (Macn Gorsedd,... | |
 | David James - Bards and bardism - 1836 - 116 pages
...The general meetings or Conventions were always held in the open air; according to the motto—"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 Presidial stone, by all, except the Druids... | |
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... 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. 
