 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
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...dearly bought his death." " I have caused divers of these poems," he concludes, " to be translated to me, that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured of sweet wit and goodly invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 320 pages
...dearly bought his death." " I have caused divers of these poems," he concludes, " to be translated to me, that I might understand them ; and surely they savoured of sweet wit and goodly invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1844 - 320 pages
...their compositions? Or be they any thing witty or well savoured, as poems should be ? "• Tea truly, I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that 1 might understand them ; and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1926 - 706 pages
...dieses irische Gedicht zu den 'Poems' gehören, von denen Spenser berichtet: I have caused diverse of them to be translated unto me that I might understand them; and surely they savoured of eweete witt and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornamentes of Poetrye . . . (Spenser... | |
 | 1847 - 784 pages
...death." And then Mr. Spenser had the cool impudence to add — " I have caused divers of these poems to be translated unto me, that I might understand...skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet they were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness... | |
 | Jeremiah Joseph Callanan - English poetry - 1847 - 184 pages
...several songs of the Irish bards to be translated that he might understand them, "and surely" he says "they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yea, they were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device which gave good grace and... | |
 | John Lynch - Ireland - 1848 - 544 pages
...Europe. Spenser himself corroborates this opinion, when he says : " I have caused divers of Irish poems to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savored of sweet wit and good invention ; they were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of natural device,... | |
 | Aengus O'Daly - Ireland - 1852 - 124 pages
...bee they any thing wittic or well savoured, as poems should be ?" Ircn. " Yea truely, I have eaused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they saeoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...any thing witty or well favoured, as poems should be f IRC.N. — Yea, truly, I have canaed diver* of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand...they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but (killed not of the goodly ornament* of poetry . yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flower* of... | |
 | Ireland - 1857 - 1712 pages
...the great disadvantage and disfigurement of a bald verbal translation : he says of Irish Poems : " I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they are savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry j yet... | |
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