... seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate in all parts of disobedience and... Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged - Seite 390herausgegeben von - 1813Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 Seiten
...improvement. ' Whomsoever they find to be most licentious of lite,' says Spenser, speaking of the bards, ' most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate in all pomts of disobedience and rebellious disposition, him they set up and glorify in their rhymes, him... | |
| 1836 - 1184 Seiten
...improvement. 'Whomsoever they rind to be most licentious of life,' says Spenser, speaking of the bards, ' most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate in all points of disobedience and rebellious disposition, him they set up and glorify in their rhymes, him... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1838 - 412 Seiten
...Bardes are, for ihe most part, so far from instructing young men in moral discipline, that themselves do more deserve to be sharply disciplined ; for they...the arguments of their poems ; but whomsoever they find to bo most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1838 - 562 Seiten
...poets, who snng the praises of the good and virtuous, informs us, that the bards, on the contrary, "seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of...arguments of their poems ; — but whomsoever they Gnde to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate... | |
| Walter Scott - 1842 - 746 Seiten
...poets, who sung the praises of the good and virtuous, informs us, that the bards, on the contrary, "seldom use to choose unto themselves the doings of...the arguments of their poems : but whomsoever they finde to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 Seiten
...are for the most part so far from instructing young men in moral discipline, that they themselves do deserve to be sharply disciplined ; for they seldom...the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate... | |
| 1849 - 778 Seiten
...said, as was said by Spenser, of the Irish bards of his day : — ' They seldom' (rather, never) ' choose unto themselves the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they find to be most licentious of life, most bold and lawless in his doings, most dangerous and desperate... | |
| Aenghus O'Daly - 1852 - 120 Seiten
...inorall discipline, that they themselves doe more deserve to be sharpely disciplmed; for they seldome use to choose unto themselves, the doings of good...the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they finde to be most licentious of life, most bolde and lawlesse in his doings, most dangerous and desperate... | |
| Aengus O'Daly - 1852 - 126 Seiten
...morall discipline, that they themselves doe more deserve to be sharpely disciplined; for they seldome use to choose unto themselves, the doings of good...the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they finde to be most licentious of life, most bolde and lawlesse in his doings, most dangerous and desperate... | |
| Aengus O'Daly - 1852 - 124 Seiten
...diseipline, that they themselves doe more deserve to be sharpely diseiplined; for they seldome use to ehoose unto themselves, the doings of good men for the arguments of their poems, but whomsoever they finde to be most lieentious of life, most bolde and lawlesse in his doings, most dangerous and desperate... | |
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