 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...even from Waterford to the head of Smeerweeke, which is about six score miles, he would not meet ante man, woman, or child, saving in townes and cities...the foxes, and other like ravening beasts ; many of them laie dead, being famished, and the residue gone elsewhere."9' * " The end will (I assure me) bee... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1827 - 888 pages
...miles , he should not meet any man , woman , or child , saving in towns and cities; nor yet see any beast but the very wolves , the foxes , and other like ravening beasts ' . " The severity of sir Arthur Grey, at this time deputy, was such , that Elizabeth was assured he... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1827 - 396 pages
...miles , he should not meet any man , woman , or child , saving in towns and cities ; nor yet see any beast but the very wolves , the foxes , and other like ravening beasts ' . " The severity of sir Arthur Grey, at this time deputy, was such , that Elizabeth was assured he... | |
 | Irishman - 1840 - 256 pages
...of one hundred and twenty miles, no man, woman, or child was to be met except in the towns, nor any beast but the very wolves, the foxes, and other like ravening beasts."* Several narrow escapes of Desmond from the parties in pursuit of him and his brother, are recorded.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 pages
...six-score miles, he should not meet any man, woman, or child, saving in towns or cities, nor yet see any beast, but the very wolves, the foxes, and other like ravening beasts." This period of destruction and desolation was appropriately enough celebrated by the publication of... | |
 | John Mitchel - Ireland - 1845 - 266 pages
...arrived at the entrance of the valley, the cavalry under command of Grey himself scoured the open * " The very wolves, the foxes, and other like ravening beasts, many of them lay dead, being famished." — Holinshed. See also Spenser's own horrible picture of this famine.... | |
 | Thomas Walsh - Catholics - 1854 - 926 pages
...would not meet anie man, woman or chiM, saving in towns and cities, nor yet see anie beast — but tho very wolves, the foxes, and other like ravening beasts — many of these laic dead, being famished, and the residue gone elsewhere." Spenser attests the same desolate condition... | |
 | Michael John Brenan - 1864 - 710 pages
...he would not meet anie man, woman, or child, saving in townes and cities, nor yet see anie beasts, but the very wolves, the foxes, and other like ravening...elsewhere."§ " Notwithstanding," says Spencer,|| " that the same (Ireland) was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you... | |
 | Patrick Francis Moran - Bishops - 1864 - 214 pages
...score miles, he would not meet any man, woman, or child, saving in towns and cities, nor yet see any beast, but the very wolves, the foxes, and other like ravening beasts, many of them lay dead, being famished, and the residue gone elsewhere."* Such was the sad destruction which... | |
 | William Gleeson - Anti-Catholicism - 1880 - 596 pages
...score miles, he would not meet any man, woman or child, saving in towns and cities, nor yet see any beast, but the very wolves, the foxes, and other like ravening beasts, many of them lay dead, being famished, and the residue gone elsewhere." O'Sullivan Beare's description of the... | |
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... so great, and the land so barren both of man and beast, that whosoever did travel from the one end... 
