 | Aenghus O'Daly - 1852 - 120 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...grace and comeliness 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... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - 1852 - 332 pages
...their naturall device, which gave good grace and comelinesse unto them, 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."* OF the Irish poems usually known by the name of Ossianic or Fenian,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1852 - 212 pages
...poems, he tells us, *' were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which have 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... | |
 | Aengus O'Daly - 1852 - 124 pages
...them, and surely they saeoured 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 nalurall dcvicc, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pitty to see... | |
 | Aengus O'Daly - 1852 - 126 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 flowers of their naturall device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pitty to see... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 758 pages
...surely they were favoured of sweet wit, and good invention, but «killed not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty...flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace aud comeliness unto them ; the which it is a great pity tu see so abused, to the gracing of wickedness... | |
 | Anthony Marmion - 1855 - 648 pages
...admit that 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." His description of the Irish bards, when he says, " they seldom choose unto themselves the doings of... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1855 - 810 pages
...whose poems, he tells us, " were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which have 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... | |
 | 1857 - 1712 pages
...they are savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry j yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of...natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness to them &c. &c. &c." The Irish Peasants were natural, involuntary, disinterested Poets : they sang... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1859 - 212 pages
...natnral device, which gave good graces and comeliness unto them, the which it is a great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which...good usage would serve to adorn and beautify virtue." t It is conjectured by Wormius, that the name of Ireland is derived from Yrt the Runic for a bow, in... | |
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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... 
