 | Gaelic Society of Glasgow - 1908 - 374 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...device which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." Here is a poem of this kind addressed to the Irish in general, by the poet Angus mac Daighre O'Daly... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Glasgow - 1908 - 372 pages
...they savoured of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; 1 yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of...device which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." Here is a poem of this kind addressed to the Irish in general, by the poet Angus mac Daighre O'Daly... | |
 | Redfern Mason - 1910 - 352 pages
...ornamentes of poetrye; yet were they sprinckled with some pretty flowers of theyr owne naturall devise, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pittye to see soe abused, to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which would with good usage, serve... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 272 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 give good grace and comlinesse unto them, the which it is great pity to see so... | |
 | William Henry Grattan Flood - 1913 - 384 pages
...to 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 unto them." For the benefit of the English reader it is as well to explain that the Racraidhe above mentioned included... | |
 | John Wynne Jeudwine - 1916 - 304 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...device which gave good grace and comeliness unto them," for which in those days of artificial verse we ought to be truly thankful.1 The criticism of the bards... | |
 | Donald Mackinnon, Mrs. Elizabeth Catherine (Carmichel) Watson - 1912 - 404 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...of their natural device, which gave good grace and comelimess unto them ; the which it is a great pity to see so abused, to the gracing of wickedness... | |
 | Ida Langdon - 1924 - 366 pages
...truly, . . . they savored 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 comliness unto them, the which it is a great pity to... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Standish Hayes O'Grady, Robin Flower - 1926 - 732 pages
...and surely they savoured of sweet Wit, and good Invention, hut skilled not of the goodly Ornaments of Poetry; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty...good Usage would serve to adorn and beautify Virtue" (Laurence Flin's ed. : Dublin 1763, pp. 112, 116). Reasonable enough from the Spenserian standpoint... | |
 | Robert Welch - 1988 - 226 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 own natural devise, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to see... | |
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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... 
