| 1788 - 642 Seiten
...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...in the air ?" The faft is, that the fmalleft of the hept.irchic kingdoms was fuperior in fize and power to any one of the heroic kingdoms of Greece, whole... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1789 - 518 Seiten
...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 the wars of " kites and crows, flocking and fighting in the " air?" Having now, for general fatisfa&ion, and, I truft,... | |
| John Charnock - 1801 - 956 Seiten
...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 of the historian. . Alfred, the fourth son to... | |
| 1804 - 624 Seiten
...•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 the wars of kites and crows, flocking and fighting in the air?'' It is very probable the Irish muse would have sunk into... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 482 Seiten
...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...or crows, flocking and fighting in the air? * The year following, Eardulf the Northumbrian leading forth an army againft Kenwulfthe Mercian for harbouring... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 482 Seiten
...but both 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 forth an army againft... | |
| 1805 - 554 Seiten
...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... | |
| Johann Martin Lappenberg - 1834 - 738 Seiten
...oft nadjtfjcilig geworbenen JCufferung oeranlafTte : Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers; what more worth is it than to chronicle...kites 'or crows flocking and fighting in the air? History of England ad a. 800. gen. ©ne feb.t genaue Übereínfiimmung mit tcm jebod) ou5= fúCrlidiern... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 518 Seiten
...against the Welsh or the Picts. Milton has said that these conflicts are as undeserving of notice as " the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air," and this remark certainly holds good with respect to the general reader, though it may not apply with... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 400 Seiten
...the transactions of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, or Octarchy, would be as worthless " to chronicle as the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air." Thus a poet-historian can veil by a brilliant metaphor the want of that knowledge which he contemns... | |
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