...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...in the air ?" The faft is, that the fmalleft of the heptarchic kingdoms was fuperior in fize and power to any one of the heroic kingdoms of Greece, whofe...

...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,...

...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...

...•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...

...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...or crows, flocking and fighting in the air? * The year following, Eardulf the Northumbrian leading forth an army againft Kenwulfthe Mercian for harbouring...

...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...

...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...

...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...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...

...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...

...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...