 | John Pinkerton - 1804 - 694 lapas
..." and surely they savoured of sweet wit, and gogd invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornament of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty...the which it is great pity to see so abused to the graceing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage would serve to adorn and beautify virtue." The... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 lapas
...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 natural device, whfch gave good grace and comeliness unto them ; the which it is great pity to see so abused, to the... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1812 - 372 lapas
...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...which gave good " grace and comeliness unto them." There can be no doubt, that the ancient poetry of the Irish was similar in its general character to... | |
 | John Bigland - 1812 - 738 lapas
...savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornament of poetry : yet they were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." The Anglo-Saxons derived no small part of their first illumination from Ireland ; and, in Scotland, literature... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 524 lapas
...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...gracing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage woulcl serve to adorn and beautify virtue. * * t This little work contains probably the best Account... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1813 - 568 lapas
...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...device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." After the impoverishment of the chiefs, however, the bard Tjecame dependent for subsistence on the... | |
 | 1814 - 564 lapas
...and surely (hey savoured of sweet wit and good invention ; but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry : yet were they sprinkled with some pretty...device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." After the impoverishment of the chiefs, however, the bard became dependent for subsistence on the multitude,... | |
 | 1814 - 556 lapas
...invention ; bat skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry : yet were they sprinkled with some prelty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." After the impoverishment of the chiefs, however, the bard became dependent for subsistence on the multitude,... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - 1814 - 504 lapas
...and surely they savoured of svveot .ivit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural deyice, which have good grace and comeliness unto them; the which is great pity to see so abused, to... | |
 | 1823 - 746 lapas
...naturall device, which gave good grace and comelinesse unto them, the which it is great pitty to see abused, to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage would serve to adorne and beautifie vertue." I send you, as specimens of the popular poetry of later days, half a... | |
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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... 
