 I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their...  The Analectic Magazine - Pàgina 4611814Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1825 - 200 pàgines
...the poetry of the Irish in his day.) Yea, truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness to... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 320 pàgines
...be translated to me, that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured of sweet wit and goodly invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments...of their natural device, which gave good grace and comliness unto them ; the which, it is great pity to see so abused, to the gracing of wickedness and... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 320 pàgines
...when he died, that dearly bought his death." " I have caused divers of these poems," he concludes, " to be translated to me, that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured of sweet wit and goodly invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with... | |
 | Patrick Fitzgerald - 1826 - 474 pàgines
...Spenser speaks of their productions at this period as being of the most licentious description, though " sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." In the bloody scenes of that period, the Bards frequently flung themselves into the midst of the Irish... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1828 - 232 pàgines
...severely, and perhaps, truly, describes in his State of Ireland, and whose' poems, he tells us, "Were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pàgines
...severely, and, perhaps, truly, describes in his State of Ireland, and whose poems, he tells us, " were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...device, which gave good grace and" comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage,... | |
 | 1837 - 366 pàgines
...ample justice to the poems. " I have caused divers of the poems to be translated to me," says he, " that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured...yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of the natural device; which gave good grace and comeliness to them." At the period of the Conquest, it... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1837 - 360 pàgines
...ample justice to the poems. " I have caused divers of the poems to be translated to me," says he, " that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured...yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of the natural device ; which gave good grace and comeliness to them." At the period of the Conquest,... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1839 - 382 pàgines
...well-savoured as poems should be?" " Yea, truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them ; and surely they...device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." My intention was to submit to the English reader a series of songs, which would have told the history... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1839 - 370 pàgines
...well-savoured as poems should be?" " Yea, truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them ; and surely they...device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." My intention was to submit to the English reader a series of songs, which would have told the history... | |
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