 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
 | 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... | |
 | Ida Langdon - 1911 - 212 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 sweet witt and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornamentes of Poetrye: yet were they sprinckled... | |
 | William Henry Grattan Flood - Music - 1913 - 384 pages
...reputation amongst them." He adds : — " I have caused divers of these [Irish] poems to be translated to 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 good grace and comeliness... | |
 | Thomas Francis O'Rahilly - Irish poetry - 1916 - 90 pages
...or be they any thing wittie or well favoured as poems should be?" " Yea, truly," answered Spenser, " I have caused divers of them to be translated unto...invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetrie, yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their own natural device, which gave good... | |
 | Donald Mackinnon, Mrs. Elizabeth Catherine (Carmichel) Watson - Celtic languages - 1912 - 404 pages
...compositions ? or be they anything witty or wellfavoured, as poems should be ? ' Irencsus. — 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 ;... | |
 | Adolphus Alfred Jack - 1920 - 398 pages
...patronising and critically banal remark on the Celtic poets. " I have caused divers of them," he writes, " to be translated unto me that I might understand them...but skilled not of the 'goodly ornaments of poetry," a sentence in which the finished artist laments the absence of qualities which he did not know are... | |
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