... anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat of the dead carrions — happy where they could find them — yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their... Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First - Page 144by Edmund Spenser - 1890 - 445 pagesFull view - About this book
| Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...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 plentiful country suddenly left void of man and VOL. i. 3 q beast."* The other provinces had no Spencer to record the favours conferred on them by... | |
| John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...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 plentiful country suddenly left »oid of man and beast. — Slate of Inland, p. 158. the cause, and means, -which were found and devised... | |
| the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...flocked as to a feast, for a time, yet not being able to continue there-whbal, in a short space of time there were none almost left, and a most populous and...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... | |
| James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...watercresses, or shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue long therewithal, that in short space, there were none...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." &c.* O Nial, deserted by his adherents, and destitute of resources, began now to think seriously/ of... | |
| Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a 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 SUDDAINLY LEFT VOYDF. OF MAN AND BEAST."99 * " And here you may see the nature and disposition of this... | |
| Ireland - 1816 - 680 pages
...nocked as to a feast for a time, yet not being able to continue there withal, in a short space of time there were none almost left; and a most populous and plentiful 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... | |
| Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could finde them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as...almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddainely left voyde of man and beast ; yet, sure in all that warre, there perished not many by the... | |
| John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...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 and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Such is the description of the desolation and misery depicted on one of the fairest portions of Ireland... | |
| Thomas Moore - Botany Bay (N.S.W.) - 1824 - 404 pages
...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 plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast*." The authors of this calamity reaped from it the expected fruits. Five hundred and seventy-four thousand... | |
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