But tell me, I pray you, have they any art in their 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 me, that I might understand them, and surely they... Absenteeism - Page 92by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1825 - 159 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...in their compositions ? Or be they any thing witty or well-favoured, as poems should be? Ireni Yes truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated...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... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...in 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...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... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...in 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... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1813 - 568 pages
...loves of their ancestry. " I have caused," says Spenser, " divers of these poems to be translated to 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... | |
| Books - 1813 - 1106 pages
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| Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 504 pages
...their 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...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 - 556 pages
...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... | |
| England - 1823 - 746 pages
...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...surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yea, they were • sprinkled with some pretty flowres... | |
| 1824 - 598 pages
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| English literature - 1839 - 608 pages
...— the most essentially poetical of all poets — speaking of Irish lyrical compositions, says, " I have caused divers of them to be translated unto...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... | |
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