 | the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet in that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine which they themselves had wrought." So much for the blessed effects of Irishmen fighting the Pope's battles against their lawful Sovereign... | |
 | Ireland - 1816 - 680 pages
...country suddenly left void both of man and beast: yet in that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves had wrought.'' A> light specimen of similar results from similar causes, was felt all over Ireland in the severe scarcity... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1831 - 690 pages
...suddenly left void of man and beast; yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves had wrought. ' That shamrocks were eaten, appears from various other authors, as in the following couplet from Wythe's... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure, in all that war, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves had wrought." That shamrocks were eaten, appears from various other authors, as in the following couplet from Wythe's... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...suddenly left void of man and beast; yet sure, in all the war, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves had wrought." Fynes Moryson, in his Itinerary (p. 271), thus speaks of the effects of Tirone's rebellion :— " Now... | |
 | REV. O COCKAYNE, M. A. - 1851 - 174 pages
...water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time There perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves had wrought.' The last words he thus explains : — ' The strength of all that nation is the kerne, gallow<jlass,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...suddenly left void of man and beast : yet sure in all that war, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves had wrought Eutxix. — It is a wonder that you tell, and more to be wondered how it should so shortly come to... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Ireland - 1861 - 224 pages
...suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure in all that war, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine, which they themselves had wrought." The famine, let the Lord Deputy's secretary say what he pleases, even supposing the people wasted their... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 510 pages
...suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet surely in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine which they themselves had wrought.' l 1 Compare Spenser's ' State of original of Sidney's despatch is in Ireland ' with ' A Description... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1868 - 520 pages
...suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet surely in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine which they themselves had wrought." 1 1 Compare Spenser's " State of Ireland " with " A Description of Muniter," by Sir Henry Sidney, after... | |
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... short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine which they themselves had wrought. 
