| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1805 - 594 pages
...wretchednefle, as that any ftony heart would have rued the fame. Out of every corner ' of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them ; k they looked 1 of the woods and glynnes] Gfent, that is, dales or vallies; here tpelt in the original... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 498 pages
...yet, ere one year and a halfe, they were brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony hart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woodes...hands, for their legges could not beare them ; they look like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts, crying out of their graves ; they tion, wound... | |
| James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...such wretchedness, 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 hands, for their legges could not bear them. They looked like anatomies * Fyncs Morjson, vol. 2, p, 3SS. f Ibid. p. 17J- f Ibid, p. 200,... | |
| Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...such wretchedness, 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 hands, for their legges could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Ireland - 1827 - 354 pages
...famine, sword, and plague, the people are brought to such wretchedness as any stony heart would rue the same ; out of every corner of the woodes and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands— their legs no longer bear them, — they like anatomies of death — they eat dead carrion, sparing... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - Ireland - 1833 - 398 pages
...such wretchedness as that any stoney heart would have 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 like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves... | |
| Aengus O'Daly - Ireland - 1852 - 126 pages
...famine, for the corn had been intentionally destroyed by the English soldiers. Spenser writes : — " Out of every corner of the woodes and glynnes they came creeping upon their hands for their legges could not bear them. ...they did eate the dead carrions, happy where... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1862 - 530 pages
...fuch wretchednefle, as that any ftony heart would have rued the fame. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands,...beare them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they fpake like ghofts crying out of their graves ; they did eate the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
| George Bennett - Bandon (Ireland) - 1869 - 600 pages
...starving. " All nearly were brought to such wretehedness," says Spenser, " as that any stony heart must rue the same. Out of every corner of the woodes and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their handes, for their legges could not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like... | |
| George Bennett - Bandon (Ireland) - 1869 - 606 pages
...starving. " All nearly were brought to such wretehedness," says Spenser, " as that any stony heart must rue the same. Out of every corner of the woodes and glynnes they eame crecping forth upon their handes, for their legges could not bear them. They looked like anatomies... | |
| |