 | John Curry - Ireland - 1793 - 438 pages
...their graves, and, if they found a plot of watercrefles or fhamrocks, there they flocked as to a feaft for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that, in fhort fpace, there was none almoft left, and a moft populous and plentiful country fuddenly left void... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and, if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there 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 plentiful country suddenly left void... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and, if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there 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 plentiful country suddenly left »oid... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...thev spared not to scrape out of their graves, and, if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there 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 plentiful country ludJenly left, void... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 498 pages
...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 short space, there were none almost left, and a most populous... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...spared not lo scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrock'!, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue lonj therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...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 the time ; yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in short space there were none almost k-ft, and a most populous... | |
 | Irishman - Ireland - 1822 - 48 pages
...carcases they spared not to scrape out of the graves, and if they found a plot of cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not being able long to continue there withalf." Such is the description of an eye-witness, and of one whose... | |
 | John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet...space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Such is the description of the desolation... | |
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... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space... 
