 | Mrs. Matthew Hall - 1854 - 468 Seiten
...chronicler Milton lost all patience, and exclaimed " Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites and crows, flocking and fighting in the air ?" " Nothing," however, observes the learned Lappenburg,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1855 - 432 Seiten
...the transactions of the AngloSaxon 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... | |
 | 1861 - 816 Seiten
...use the words of Milton applied to the Saxon Heptarchy, «such bickerings 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.' " Dr. Campbell's leading argument appears to surmise that... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1862 - 640 Seiten
...recorded in the meagre native annals, that, as Milton says, they were not ' more worth to chronicle than the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air.' The life and reign of Alfred form a brilliant exception to the uninteresting character of Anglo-Saxon history... | |
 | 1862 - 628 Seiten
...Julv, know that Milton is continually rebuked in these days for having likened Anglo-Saxon history to 'the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air ;' yet we imagine that, after all, the feeling of readers in general is rather with Milton than with... | |
 | 1862 - 600 Seiten
...,all know that Milton is continually rebuked in these days for having likened Anglo-Saxon history to 'the wars of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air ;' yet we imagine that, after all, the feeling of readers in general is rather with Milton than with... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1862 - 746 Seiten
...will here be made. As Milton said of the wars of the Anglo-Saxons : — " Such bickerings to recount what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites and crows flocking and fighting in the air ? " It is sufficient to say that, the question seems now... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - 1867 - 606 Seiten
...recorded in the meagre native annals, that, as Milton says, they were not ' more worth to chronicle than the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air.' The life and reign of Alfred form a brilliant exception to the uninteresting character of Anglo-Saxon history;... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1868 - 548 Seiten
...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...kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air? 9The year following, Eardulf the Northumbrian leading forth an army against Kenwulf the Mercian for... | |
 | Saint Bede (the Venerable) - 1870 - 566 Seiten
...dukes were slain 2 , no reason of their quarrel written; such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle...of kites or crows, flocking and fighting in the air 3 ?' It is evident that Milton here finds fault rather with the chronicler than with his subject. This... | |
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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? 
