 ... they could find them; yea, and one another soon 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...  Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First - Page 12by Henry Morley - 1890 - 445 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...death; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after...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
...death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves. They did eate tlie deade carrions — happy where they could find them ; yea, and one another .soon...flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue long therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...From their accounts, it would appear that they were among the worst of the human species,* other soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared...feast for the time ; yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1822 - 758 pages
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 | Irishman - Ireland - 1822 - 48 pages
...insomuch as the 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... | |
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