 | 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
...spared not to scrape 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
...happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after : insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and,...they 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... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after • insomuch, as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and,...they 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... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...happy were they could find them, yea, and one another soon after : insomuch, as the very carcasses thev spared not to scrape out of their graves, and, if...they 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 498 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrocks, here 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 plentifull... | |
 | John Lawless - Ireland - 1815 - 558 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves -T and If they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocs, there they flocked 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 aiul... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...they were among the worst of the human species,* other soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...feast for the time ; yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in short space there were none almost k-ft, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...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 graves; and...flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue long therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...spared not lo scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrock'!, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue lonj therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous... | |
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