 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 Tribes of Ireland: A Satire - Page 21by Aengus O'Daly - 1852 - 112 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...wittye or well savoured, as Poems should be ? [Irena;us answers :] Yea truly ; I have caused diverse ies reported of the end and death of that g sweete witt and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornamentes of Poetrye : yet were they... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...wittye or well savoured, as Poems should be? [Irenaeus answers :] Yea truly; I have caused diverse nt blood, Nor shall they now be tainted with a king's. Edw. Forgive my thought, for sweete witt and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornamentes of Poetrye : yet were they... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Authors, English - 1902 - 800 pages
...they any thing witty e or well savoured, as Poems should be ? Iren. Yea truly; I have caused diverse of them to be translated unto me that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured of sweete witt and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornanientes of\ Poetrye : yet were the}'... | |
 | Douglas Hyde - Irish literature - 1903 - 688 pages
...compositions, or be they anything wittie or wellmannered as poems should be ? " " Yea, truly," says Spenser, " I have caused divers of them to be translated unto...understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet art and good invention, but skilled not in the goodly ornaments of poesie, yet were they sprinkled... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1904 - 586 pages
...clear poetical insight, pronounced a fair criticism of the poetry of the Irish bards : — ' Yea, truly I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might 1 Calendar of Aenyua, p. 17. * Lect. on Manners and Customs, i. 167. understand them, and surely they... | |
 | English poetry - 1907 - 498 pages
...in their compositions? or bee they anything wittie or well savoured, as poemes should be ? Ircnceus. Yea truely, I have caused divers of them to be translated...surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, . . . sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural! device, which gave good grace and comelinesse... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Glasgow - Scotland - 1908 - 372 pages
...they anything witty or well savoured as poems should be ? " And Irenseus answers him : " Yea truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto...but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; 1 yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device which gave good grace... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1910 - 800 pages
...they any thing wittye or well savoured, as Poems should be ? Iren. Yea truly ; I have caused diverse of them to be translated unto me that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured of sweete witt and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornamentes of Poetrye : yet were they... | |
 | Redfern Mason - Folk music - 1910 - 352 pages
...bards, though he only knew their work at second hand. " Yes, truly," he says, " I have caused diverse of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them; and surely they savored of sweete witt and good invention, but skilled not of the goodlye ornamentes of poetrye; yet... | |
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