...These Irish Bardes are, for the most part, so far from instructing young men in moral discipline, that themselves do more deserve to be sharply disciplined...choose unto themselves the doings of good men for (he arguments of their poems; but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and...

...poets, who sung the praises of the good and virtuous, informs us, that the bards, on the contrary, "seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems: but whomsoever they finde to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most...

...These Irish Bardes are, for the most part, so far from instructing young men in moral discipline, that themselves do more deserve to be sharply disciplined...doings of good men for the arguments of their poems; but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous...

...These Irish Bardes are, for ihe most part, so far from instructing young men in moral discipline, that themselves do more deserve to be sharply disciplined...doings of good men for the arguments of their poems ; but whomsoever they find to bo most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most...

...poets, who snng the praises of the good and virtuous, informs us, that the bards, on the contrary, "seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems ; — but whomsoever they Gnde to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings,...

...poets, who sung the praises of the good and virtuous, informs us, that the bards, on the contrary, "seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems : but whomsoever they finde to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most...

...the author of the " Faery Queen" is not so eulogistic of his brother poets. "They seldom," he adds, "choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they found to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most...

...not Spenser's represent them in better colours : "These Irish Bards account of are for the most part so far from instructing young men in moral discipline, that they themselves do deserve to be sharply disciplined ; for they seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of good...

...said, as was said by Spenser, of the Irish bards of his day : — ' They seldom' (rather, never) ' choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous...

...inorall discipline, that they themselves doe more deserve to be sharpely disciplmed; for they seldome use to choose unto themselves, the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they finde to be most licentious of life, most bolde and lawlesse in his doings, most...