 | 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
...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
...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 almost left and...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...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 there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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... 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 therewithal ; that in short... 
