 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...was a most rich, and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle. — Yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns, they came creeping forth upon their hands,... | |
 | the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...ene would have thought the Rebels should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any...would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the W9ods and glyns they came creeping forth upon their hands and feet, for their legs could not bear them... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...poet, speaking of the war which had depopulated Munster, write? thus : — " Ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any...rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes, they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them. They looked... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...have been able to stand long, yet in one years and a halfe they were brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their handes, for their legges could not beare them ; they looked... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...that you would have thought they should have been able to stand long ; yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any...rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them ; they looked... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...have been able to stand long, yet in one yeare and a hälfe tlmj icere brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of thmvoods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their /fondes, /or their legges could not beare... | |
 | Thomas Moore - Botany Bay (N.S.W.) - 1824 - 404 pages
...says Spenser, " that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would rue the same. * Elizabeth knew the art of turning Irish rebellions to account full as well as any of... | |
 | William Phelan - Ireland - 1827 - 378 pages
...Notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands,... | |
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... they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death,... 
