 | Thomas Moore - 1880 - 642 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 - 1881 - 544 pages
...severely, and perhaps truly, describes In his Stute of Ireland, and whose poems, he tells us, " were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it li frreat pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1882 - 682 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 sec abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1883 - 624 pages
...whose poems, he tells us, "Were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural device, which pave 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... | |
 | Cork poets - 1883 - 540 pages
...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 comelinesse unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1887 - 264 pages
...their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which,...usage, would serve to adorn and beautify virtue." Might have bent a proud bow to the warrior's dart;* And the lip, which now breathes but the song of... | |
 | John Ramsay - 1888 - 620 pages
...translated to him) " 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, the which it is great pity to see so abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice." The acrimony... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1893 - 632 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 flowers of their own natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see... | |
 | 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 - 612 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 sec soe abused.' These reports from enemies should have weight with all to whom what... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1895 - 874 pages
...n.itui.il device, which have Rood grace and comeliness unto ihem, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which,...usage, would serve to adorn and beautify virtue." 2 It is conjectured ny \Vnrmius, that the name of Ireland is derived from } r, the Runic for a tffttr,... | |
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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... 
