Bards

• Priscus describes how bards chanted before Attila. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Verbal tradition was developed to its highest possibility by the bards. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• By the time bronze was coming into Europe there was not an Aryan people that had not a profession and training of bards. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Bards have written of the cestus of Venus, that turned the heads of all the world in successive generations. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I am a poet, not a ruler; and Napoleons are made of stronger stuff than mere bards piping their idle song, and letting the world go by. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The bards and rhapsodists flourished for long after the introduction of writing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These bards were living books, man-histories, guardians and makers of a new and more powerful tradition in human life. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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