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
| 1857 - 626 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 savoured of sweet nit and good invention ; they are sprinkled with some pretty flowers of natural device, which gave... | |
| 892 pages
...licentious! io upon stcalthes and spoyles," the author of tho " Faerie Queene," however, ingenuously adds, " I have caused divers of them to be translated unto...surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, bat skilled not' of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers... | |
| Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Annals of the Four Masters - 1861 - 436 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...surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention ; they are sprinkled with some pretty flowers of natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 930 pages
...undoubtedly were from the ancient standard, a competent critic, the author of the" Faerie Queene," says, "I have caused divers of them to be translated unto...understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit, and gopd invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry; yet were they sprinkled with some... | |
| Cork poets - 1883 - 540 pages
...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 sprinked with some pretty flowers of their natural device which gave good grace and... | |
| Literature - 1892 - 954 pages
...or bee they anything wittie or well savoured as poems should be?" Spenser (as Irenaeus) answers : " Yea, truely, I have caused •divers of them to be...but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry " (rather these were lost in a prose translation) ; " they were sprinkled with some pretty flowers... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1893 - 998 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 oruamentcs of Poetrve : yet were they... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1896 - 740 pages
...compositions ? or be they any thing witty or well-favoured, as poems should be ? " Irenseus. — 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 ;... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1897 - 808 pages
...they any thing witty e or well savoured, as Poems should be ? Irrn. Yea truly; I have caused diverse of them to be translated unto me that I might understand them ; and surelv thev savoured of sweete witt and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornamentes of... | |
| 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 - 1898 - 596 pages
...poetry of the Irish bards, to whom when in Ireland he lii *ingularly destitute. '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 ornaments of Poetrye ; yet were they... | |
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