 ... and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left...  Limerick: its history and antiquities - Page 110by Maurice Lenihan - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1763 - 310 pages
...their Graves ; and if they found a Plot of Water-creffes or Shamrocks, there they flocked as to a Feaft for the time. yet not able long to continue there withal; that in fhort fpace there were none almoft left, and a moft populous and plentiful Countrey fuddenly left void... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 354 pages
...out of their graves. And if they found a plot of water-cresses, or shamrockes, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not able long to continue there withall, &c*." Spenser himself died in Ireland, in the most wretched condition, amid the desolations... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...and one another soon after : insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and, if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that, in short space, there... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...and one another soon after • insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and, if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...and one another soon after : insomuch, as the very carcasses thev spared not to scrape out of their graves, and, if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcases they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast for the time." In the rebellions of the two O'Neales, the horrors of war were... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...species,* other soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ,• and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time ; yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in short space... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...and one another .soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrocks, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue long therewithal, that in short space,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1820 - 350 pages
...out of their graves. And if they found a plot of water-cresses, or shamrockes, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not able long to continue there withal], &c*." Spenser himself died in Ireland, in the most wretched condition, amid the desolations of this... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...out of their graves; and if they found a plot of r water-cresses or shamrock's, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not able long to continue therewithal!; that in short space there were none almost left, and a mast populous and plentiful country... | |
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