 | Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1763 - 310 pages
...and plentiful Countrey fuddenly left void of Man and Beaft ; yet fure in all that War, there perifhed not many by the Sword, but all by the Extremity of Famine, which they themfelves had wrought. EudoK. It is a wonder that you tell, and morcto be wondered how it fhould fo... | |
 | the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...space of time there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet in that war there perished...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... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1831 - 690 pages
...none left, and a most populous plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast; yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but...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
...left, and a most populous, plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure, in all that war, there perished not many by the sword, but...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 - 562 pages
...and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure, in all the war, there perished not many by the sword, but all...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... | |
 | John Mitchel - Ireland - 1845 - 266 pages
...Carrig-a-foyle, Askeaton, Ballyloghan, and Castlemaine. There was no pitched-battle, " so that in all that warre there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine."* The cruellest warfare ever waged by man ; until the whole territories of Desmond lay a smoking desert... | |
 | REV. O COCKAYNE, M. A. - 1851 - 174 pages
...and if they found a plot of 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,... | |
 | JOHN CASSELL - 1851 - 446 pages
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 | REV. O COCKAYNE, M. A. - 1851 - 174 pages
...out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to 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, stocah,... | |
 | Walter Bourchier Devereux - Nobility - 1853 - 604 pages
...most populous and plentiful county " was suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet " surely in all that war, there perished not many by " the sword,...the extremity of famine " which they themselves had wrought."1 Little wonder, indeed, that a people reduced to such horrible excess of wretchedness should... | |
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... that in 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... 
