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... famine which they themselves had wrought . " Sad contrast to the picture painted by the same poet's pencil as he knew it before the savage war , the responsibility for the consequences of which he so flippantly throws 9.
... famine which they themselves had wrought . " Sad contrast to the picture painted by the same poet's pencil as he knew it before the savage war , the responsibility for the consequences of which he so flippantly throws 9.
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... famine took up the work where neither sword nor rope could reach . Finally , when of the proud clan of the southern Geraldines there was none left but a few scattered and desperate bands , the last weapon was produced which never failed ...
... famine took up the work where neither sword nor rope could reach . Finally , when of the proud clan of the southern Geraldines there was none left but a few scattered and desperate bands , the last weapon was produced which never failed ...
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... famine , and slaughter : 66 FAMINE ADDRESSING SLAUGHTER . " Thanks , sister , thanks ! the men have bled , Their wives and their children faint for bread . I stood in a swampy field of battle , With bones and skulls I made a rattle , To ...
... famine , and slaughter : 66 FAMINE ADDRESSING SLAUGHTER . " Thanks , sister , thanks ! the men have bled , Their wives and their children faint for bread . I stood in a swampy field of battle , With bones and skulls I made a rattle , To ...
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... FAMINE . A baby beat its dying mother , I had starved the one and was starving the other . FIRE . Sisters , I from Ireland came ! Hedge and corn - fields all on flame , I triumphed o'er the setting sun ! And all the time the work was ...
... FAMINE . A baby beat its dying mother , I had starved the one and was starving the other . FIRE . Sisters , I from Ireland came ! Hedge and corn - fields all on flame , I triumphed o'er the setting sun ! And all the time the work was ...
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... In Tyrone , which had been reduced to a desert , and in the neighbouring counties also , he had found everywhere men dead of famine , insomuch that O'Hagan [ a chieftain of Tyrone ] protested unto us , that between Tullahogue and 13.
... In Tyrone , which had been reduced to a desert , and in the neighbouring counties also , he had found everywhere men dead of famine , insomuch that O'Hagan [ a chieftain of Tyrone ] protested unto us , that between Tullahogue and 13.
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Page 159 - But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled...
Page 153 - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood ; which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk : 21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Page 151 - The noble sister of Poplicola, The moon of Rome ; chaste as the icicle That's curdled by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple This is no more than illustrating a quality of the mind, by comparing it with a sensible object.
Page 122 - Parliaments, imprisonments and prosecution of members, ship-money, an arbitrary administration; these were loudly complained of: but the grievances which tended chiefly to inflame the Parliament and nation, especially the latter, were the surplice, the rails placed about the altar, the bows exacted on approaching it, the liturgy, the breach of the sabbath, embroidered copes, lawn sleeves, the use of the ring in marriage, and of the cross in baptism. On account of these...
Page 86 - Come every hill-plaid, and True heart that wears one, Come every steel blade, and Strong hand that bears one.
Page 4 - Trevor, and many honest gentlemen lying in the Newry, can witness that some old women of those parts used to make a fire in the fields, and divers little children driving out the cattle in the cold mornings, and coming thither to warm them, were by them surprised, killed, and eaten...
Page 110 - Leslie; whereupon they delivered up their arms and came forth to a plain field as they were directed. But then did the churchmen quarrel [complain] that quarter should be given to such wretches as they, and declared it to be an act of most sinful impiety to spare them, wherein divers of the noblemen complied with the clergy; and...