 | Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie - 1879 - 510 pages
...into the sea in the ninth century. ' I have heard,' says Edmund Spenser, no panegyrist of the Irish, ' some great warriors say that in all the services which...never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge.' On the whole, Dr. Sullivan seems much to exaggerate the... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1890 - 462 pages
...Englishmen first into Ireland. Neither is the same accounted an uncomely manner of riding ; for I have heard some great warriors say that, in all the services...never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge; neither is his manner of mounting unseemly, though he lack... | |
 | William Copeland Borlase - 1897 - 540 pages
...tall, round, and fat." Spenser, in his "View of the State of Ireland" § (1596), says, " I have heard some great warriors say that in all the services which they had seen abroade in foreigne countreyes, they never saw a more comely man than the Irish man, nor that cometh... | |
 | Edmund Ignatius Hogan - 1899 - 186 pages
...call greyhounds, are smaller than in England." 20. In 1597, Edmund Spencer writes: — "I have heard some great warriors say that, in all the services...never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge ; neither is his manner of mounting unseemly, though he lacks... | |
 | Maurice O'Connor Morris - 1900 - 144 pages
...English into Ireland. " Neither is the same accounted an uncomely manner of ryding, for I have heard some great warriors say that in all the services which they had seene abroad, in foreigne countreyes, they never saw a more comely man than the Irish man, nor that... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1904 - 388 pages
...too, some good qualities in the native Irish. They were skilled and alert horsemen. ' I have heard some great warriors say, that, in all the services...in foreign countries, they never saw a more comely horseman than the Irish man, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge: neither is his manner of... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - 1904 - 586 pages
...enterprises, very present in perils, very great scorners of death.' ' I have heard some great warriours say, that in all the services which they had seen abroad in forraigne countreyes they never saw a more comely man than the Irishman nor that commeth in more bravely... | |
 | Francis Ryan Montgomery Hitchcock - 1908 - 572 pages
...these wild Irish troops—the martial predecessors of the Dublin Fusiliers. " I have heard," he says, " some great warriors say that in all the services which...never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge ; neither is his manner of mounting unseemly though he lacks... | |
 | T. W. Rolleston - 1990 - 536 pages
...he lay, and continued his comrade's task. He too fell 1 Compare Spenser : " I have heard some greate warriors say, that in all the services which they had seen abroad in forrayne countreys, they never saw a more comely horseman than the Irish man, nor that correth on more... | |
 | 1875 - 932 pages
...into the sea in the ninth century. " I have heard," says Edmund Spenser, no panegyrist of the Irish, " some great warriors say that in all the services which...never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more brayely in his charge." On the whole, Dr. Sullivan seems much to exaggerate the... | |
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I have heard some great warriors say that, in all the services which they had seen abroad in foreign countries, they never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge... 
