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 - Pągina 4611814Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| A. L. Rowse - 2003 - 480 pągines
...was sufficiently interested in Irish poetry as to " 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." 2 What opportunities of fruitful intermingling, of that crossing of cultures from which such good things... | |
| 460 pągines
...of the Irish poems of his day : — " 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." The vein of melancholy pervading Irish nature appears very clearly in old Irish poetry, and also a... | |
| William O'Connor Morris - 1896 - 402 pągines
...of the Irish poems of his day : — " 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." The vein of melancholy pervading Irish nature appears very clearly in old Irish poetry, and also a... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1839 - 592 pągines
...speaking of Irish lyrical compositions, says, " I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them ; and surely they...natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness to them." It is of compositions so described, and by such a describer, that Mr. Crofton Croker furnishes... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1844 - 598 pągines
...to the liberty of their country. " I have caused," he says, " divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they...yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is a great pity to see... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1878 - 1368 pągines
...place he expressly says : ' I have caused divers of them (Irish compositions) to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they...poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowres of their naturall device, which gave good grace and comliness« unto t hem '(p. 124, ed. 1809).... | |
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