 | Books and bookselling - 1788 - 588 pages
...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 was fuperior in fize and power to any... | |
 | 1788 - 642 pages
...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 was fuperior in fize and power to any... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Ireland - 1789 - 518 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1804 - 624 pages
...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 - 1806 - 482 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1834 - 752 pages
...lîodjtijciitg geœorbenen Ü'ufffi-ung eeranlafTte: Such bickerings to recount, met often in theie our writers; what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air? History of England ad a. 800. gen. Sine fcï;r genaue Übereinfltmmung mit bem icbecb aufc fut>tlid)em... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 518 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 426 pages
...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... | |
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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? 
