Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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 92
by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1825 - 159 pages
Full view - About this book

Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

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...
Full view - About this book

Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

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...
Full view - About this book

Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

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...
Full view - About this book

Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

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...
Full view - About this book

The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

Books - 1813 - 1106 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]
Snippet view - About this book

The History of Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 1

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...
Full view - About this book

Analectic Magazine: Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and ..., Volume 3

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...
Full view - About this book

Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 13

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...
Full view - About this book

The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 8

1824 - 598 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ]
Snippet view - About this book

The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF