 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 354 pages
...happy were they could they find them, yea, and one another soon after; insomuch, as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their* graves. And if they found a plot of water-cresses, or shamrockes, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not able long to continue there withall,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 354 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves. And if they found a plot of water-cresses, or shamrockes, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not able long to continue there withall, &c*." Spenser himself died in Ireland, in the most wretched condition, amid the desolations... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1807 - 388 pages
...happy were they could they find them, yea, and one another soon after; insomuch, as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves. And if they found a plot of water-cresses, of shamrockes, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not able long to continue there... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after : insomuch, as the very carcasses...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after • insomuch, as the very carcasses...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after : insomuch, as the very carcasses thev spared not to scrape out of their graves, and, if...they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 498 pages
...title of a protecteress. Though the Dutch were no lesse hers by interest did eat the dead carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrocks, here they flocked, as to a feast for the time ; yet not able long to continue therewithall, that in... | |
 | John Lawless - Ireland - 1815 - 558 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves -T and If they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocs, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in a short space there was none almost left, and a most populous aiul... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and...shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast for the time." In the rebellions of the two O'Neales, the horrors of war were also greatly aggravated by those of... | |
 | the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they'found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast, for a time, yet not being able to continue there-whbal, in a short space of time there were none almost... | |
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... anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves... 
