 ... ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked...  A Concise History of Ireland ... - Page 151by Patrick Weston Joyce - 1912 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 498 pages
...have been able to stand long ; yet, ere one year and a halfe, they were brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony hart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woodes and glynnes, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...long, yet in one years and a halfe they were brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their handes, for their legges could not beare them ; they looked... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...thus : — " Ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them. They looked... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...long ; yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them ; they looked... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Ireland - 1833 - 398 pages
...stand long ; yet in one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stoney heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them. They looked... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked... | |
 | Michael John Brenan - Ireland - 1845 - 528 pages
...stand long; yet in one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came, creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them — they looked... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - History - 1851 - 392 pages
...stand long, yet in one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stoney heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their SEVERITIES OF CROMWELL. 27 hands, for their legges could... | |
 | Walter Bourchier Devereux - Great Britain - 1853 - 546 pages
...full of corn and cattle ; but then " was " brought to such wretchedness, that the most stony " heart would have rued the same ; out of every " corner of the woods and glens they came creeping " forth on their hands, for their legs would not bear " them ; they looked... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like... | |
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