 Yea, truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them ; and surely they were favoured of sweet wit, and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty...  Ancient Irish Minstrelsy - Strana ixpodľa William Hamilton Drummond - 1852 - Počet stránok 292Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | George Burnett - 1807 - Počet stránok 970
...their compositions ? Or be they any thing witty or well-favoured, as poems should be ? Iren. Yes truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I migb.t understand them ; and surely they savoured of sweet wit, and good invention, but skilled not... | |
 | John Bigland - 1812 - Počet stránok 738
...compositions of the Irish bards, several of which he had caused to be translated : " Surely," says he, " they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornament of poetry : yet they were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - 1814 - Počet stránok 504
...compositions ; or be they any thing witty or well savoured, as poems should be ? " Iren.—Yea truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto...might understand them : and surely they savoured of svveot .ivit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry; yet were they sprinkled... | |
 | 1814 - Počet stránok 556
...loves, of their ancestry. " I have caused," says Spenser, " divers of these ptfems to be translated to me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention ; bat skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry : yet were they sprinkled with some prelty flowers... | |
 | 1823 - Počet stránok 746
...acknowledging, in his View of Ireland, that he had " caused divers of them" (songs of Irish bards) "to be translated unto me, that I might understand...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... | |
 | 1823 - Počet stránok 762
...acknowledging, in his View of Ireland, that he had " caused divers of them" (songs of Irish bards) "to be translated unto me, that I might understand...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 Crofton Croker - 1824 - Počet stránok 442
...them, notwithstanding Spencer's commendation : " Yea truly," says the poet, in his View of Ireland, " I have caused divers of them to be translated unto...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 - Počet stránok 448
...them, notwithstanding Spencer's commendation : " Yea truly," says the poet, in his View of Ireland, " I have caused divers of them to be translated unto...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... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1825 - Počet stránok 200
...their compositions ? (says Spenser in speaking of the poetry of the Irish in his day.) Yea, truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto...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... | |
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