 | Thomas Moore - 1821 - 276 pages
...severely, and perhaps truly, describes in his State of Ireland, and whose poems, he tells us, " were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and beautify... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1821 - 294 pages
...severely, and, perhaps, truly, describes in his State of Ireland, and whose poems, he tells us, " Were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and beautify... | |
 | 1839 - 608 pages
...; 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...natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness to them." It is of compositions so described, and by such a describer, that Mr. Crofton Croker furnishes... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1822 - 198 pages
...whose poem?, he tells us, nwere sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which gaye good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and beautify... | |
 | 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 - 1894 - 602 pages
...of the goodly ornaments of Poetrye ; yet were they sprinckled with some pretty flowers of their own natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is greate pittye to see soe abused.' These reports from enemies should have weight with all to whom what... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 314 pages
...severely, and, perhaps, truly, describes in his State of Ireland, and whose poems, he tells us, " Were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and beautify... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1823 - 464 pages
...severely, and, perhaps, truly, describes in his State of Ireland, and whose poems, he tells us, " Were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and beautify... | |
 | 1823 - 758 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1824 - 600 pages
...translated unto 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 to them." t " Oh wretched condition of our loved compatriots, the remains of a once happypeople, steeped... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused, to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage would serve to adorn and beautify... | |
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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... 
