 | 1788 - 588 sider
...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 one of... | |
 | 1788 - 642 sider
...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 one of... | |
 | John Charnock - 1801 - 956 sider
...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... | |
 | Johann Martin Lappenberg - 1834 - 752 sider
...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 - 1839 - 518 sider
...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 - 426 sider
...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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 400 sider
...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 - 1842 - 366 sider
...the transaotiops 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 580 sider
...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 year following,! Eardulf the Northumbrian leading forth an army against Kenwulf the Mercian for harbouring... | |
 | Johann Martin Lappenberg - 1845 - 384 sider
...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 }" Milton, Hist. of England. — T. 4 Vita Offse II. made by one of his subjects to the abbey of St.... | |
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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? 
