 | Thomas Moore - 1895 - 838 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 ana vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and beautify... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 740 pages
...surely they were favoured of sweet wit, and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty...good grace and comeliness unto them ; the which it is a great pity to see so abused, to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage would serve... | |
 | Shafto Justin Adair Fitz-Gerald - 1901 - 272 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...device which gave good grace and comeliness unto them.' " But, generally speaking, was not Spenser not only unjust but basely ungrateful to the people he lived... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1879 - 252 pages
...natural device, which have good grace and comeliness nnto them, the which it is great pity to see abased to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with...usage, would serve to adorn and beautify virtue." * It is conjectured, by Wormins, that the name of Ireland is derived from Yr, the Runic for a bow,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1902 - 420 pages
...seems, was bought for forty crowns. However, Spenser allows that some of the poetry was " sprinkled with pretty flowers of their natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness to them, the which it is great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which with... | |
 | Douglas Hyde - 1903 - 688 pages
...surely they savoured of sweet art and good invention, but skilled not in the goodly ornaments of poesie, yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of...good grace and comeliness unto them ; the which it is a great pity to see abused to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which with good usage would serve... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1904 - 384 pages
...asserts 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 flowers of their own natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them.' Spenser also took an antiquarian... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1904 - 388 pages
...asserts 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 flowers of their own natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them.' Spenser also took an antiquarian... | |
 | 1907 - 498 pages
...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 comelinesse unto them. — EDMUND SPENSER, A View of the State of Ireland, 1596. Will no one tell me... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 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 natural derice, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is a great pity to see so abused,... | |
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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... 
