 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 Quarterly Review - Page 86edited by - 1898Full view - About this book
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...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 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... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...be they any thing witty or well-favoured, as poems should be? Ireni Yes 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, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - Ireland - 1814 - 504 pages
...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 savoured of svveot .ivit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry; yet were they sprinkled... | |
 | 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 them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yea, they were •... | |
 | English literature - 1839 - 608 pages
...essentially poetical of all poets — speaking of Irish lyrical compositions, says, " 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 602 pages
...Irish poems — ' to be translated unto me that I might understand them,' is fain to acknowledge that ' surely they savoured of sweete witt and good invention,...ornaments of Poetrye ; yet were they sprinckled with some pretty flowers of their own natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which... | |
 | England - 1823 - 762 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 them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yea, they were sprinkled... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Ireland - 1824 - 448 pages
...Spencer's commendation : " Yea 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 596 pages
...(says Spenser in speaking of the poetry of the Irish in his (lay.) Vea, 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... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1824 - 442 pages
...Spencer's commendation : " Yea 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... | |
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