...was sufficiently interested in Irish poetry as to " have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them. And surely they...device which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." 2 What opportunities of fruitful intermingling, of that crossing of cultures from which such good things...

...of the Irish poems of his day : — " Yea, truly I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they...device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." The vein of melancholy pervading Irish nature appears very clearly in old Irish poetry, and also a...

...of the Irish poems of his day : — " Yea, truly I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they...device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them." The vein of melancholy pervading Irish nature appears very clearly in old Irish poetry, and also a...

...speaking of Irish lyrical compositions, says, " I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them ; and surely they...natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness to them." It is of compositions so described, and by such a describer, that Mr. Crofton Croker furnishes...

...to the liberty of their country. " I have caused," he says, " divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they...yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowers of natural device, which gave good grace and comeliness unto them, the which it is a great pity to see...

...place he expressly says : ' I have caused divers of them (Irish compositions) to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they...poetry ; yet were they sprinkled with some pretty flowres of their naturall device, which gave good grace and comliness« unto t hem '(p. 124, ed. 1809)....