 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 - Page 4611814Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Thomas Moore - 1821 - 294 pages
...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 - 1821 - 276 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1823 - 760 pages
...View of Ireland, that he had " caused divers of them" (songs of Irish bards) "to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they...but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yea, they were sprinkled with some pretty flowres of their naturall device, which gave good grace... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 462 pages
...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 - 1823 - 316 pages
...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 Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 600 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 442 pages
...truly," says the poet, in his View of Ireland, " 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." Fingal and Ossian generally perform leading parts, and the adventures of a chief detained by spells... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 448 pages
...truly," says the poet, in his View of Ireland, " 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/' Fingal and Ossian generally perform leading parts, and the adventures of a chief detained by spells... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...savoured, as poems should be ? Iren. 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 which it is great pity to see abused, to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 374 pages
...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... | |
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