 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Ballads, English - 1839 - 382 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." My intention was to submit to the English reader a series of songs, which would have told the history... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1841 - 396 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... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - Ireland - 1844 - 388 pages
...that " they surely savored 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." In other respects, the author of the " Faery Queen" is not so eulogistic of his brother poets. "They... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1844 - 320 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." SPENSER'S View of the State of Ireland. LONDON. PRINTED FOE THE PERCY SOCIETY, BY T. RICHARDS, 100,... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1844 - 324 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." SPENSER'S View of the State of Ireland. LONDON. PRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY, BY T. RICHARDS, 100,... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Ireland - 1844 - 316 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." SPENSER'S Vicic of the Stale of Irelan'l, LONDON. PRINTED FOR THE PERCY SOCIETY, BY T. RICHARDS, 100,... | |
 | 1847 - 784 pages
...of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yet they were sprinkled with some pretty flowers of their natural...good grace and comeliness unto them ; the which it is a great pity to sec so abused, to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would... | |
 | Jeremiah Joseph Callanan - English poetry - 1847 - 184 pages
...of sweet wit and good invention, but skilled not of the goodly ornaments of poetry ; yea, they were sprinkled 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 - Ireland - 1849 - 208 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... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1851 - 918 pages
...poems, he tells us, lt were sprinkled with some pretty flowers ni their natural device, which have good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is great pity to seo ab'ised to the gracing of wickedness and vice, which, with good usage, would serve to adorn and... | |
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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... 
