 Wiltshire men overcame, but both dukes were slain, no reason of their quarrel written ; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air?  The Queens Before the Conquest - Página 82de Mrs. Matthew Hall - 1854 - 800 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1788 - 588 páginas
...dukes were flain, no reafon of thir quarrel writ'n ; fuch bickerings to recount, met oft'n in thefe our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air ?" The faft is, that the fmalleft of the heptarchic kingdoms... | |
 | 1788 - 642 páginas
...were fla.n, no re;ifon of thir quarrel writ'n ; fuch bickerings to recount, met oft'n in thefe «ur writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites, or crows, flocking and fighting in the air ?" The faft is, that the fmalleft of the hept.irchic kingdoms... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1789 - 518 páginas
...the words of Milton, applied to the Saxon heptarchy : " Such bicker" ings to recount, fo often met in our writers, what " more worth is it than to chronicle...kites and crows, flocking and fighting in the " air?" Having now, for general fatisfa&ion, and, I truft, for your own conviftion, fufficiently proved, that... | |
 | John Charnock - 1801 - 956 páginas
...depredations. Well might Milton, fatigued with registering such trifles, exclaim, " These bickerings to record, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air." Such, however, must be, occasionally, the painful task... | |
 | 1804 - 624 páginas
...•wonls of Milton, applied to the Saxon heptarchy : " such bicker, ings to recount, so often met in our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle...kites and crows, flocking and fighting in the air?'' It is very probable the Irish muse would have sunk into perpetual oblivion, if Colonel Vallancey had... | |
 | John Milton - 1806 - 482 páginas
...dukes were flain, no reafon of their quarrel written; fuch bickerings to recount, met often in thcfe our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air? * The year following, Eardulf the Northumbrian leading... | |
 | John Milton - 1806 - 482 páginas
...dukes were flain, no reafon of their quarrel written ; fuch bickerings to recount, met often in thefe our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows, flocking and righting in the air ? * The year following, Eardulf the Northumbrian leading... | |
 | 1805 - 554 páginas
...the words of Milton, applied to the Saxon Heptarchy, " fuch bickerings to recount, fo often met in our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites and crows nocking and fighting in the air?'" It is very probable that the Irifli Mnfe would have (unk into perpetual... | |
 | 1828 - 592 páginas
...execution. Those ages, to recount the revolutions of which, according to Milton, ' it is not more worth, than to chronicle the wars of kites and crows, flocking and fighting in the air,' are rich in materials for poetry and romance, and more especially for the drama. They abound in striking... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 páginas
...execution. Those ages, to recount the revolutions of which, according to Milton, ' it is not more worth, than to chronicle the wars of kites and crows, flocking and fighting in the air,' are rich in materials for poetry and romance, and more especially for the drama. They abound in striking... | |
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