 | William Dool Killen - Church and state - 1875 - 572 pages
...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 stony heart would have rued (mourned) the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came creeping forth upon their... | |
 | William Dool Killen - Church and state - 1875 - 586 pages
...1793, 1795, 1797. 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 stony heart would have rued (mourned) the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came creeping forth upon their... | |
 | Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1877 - 304 pages
...same was a most rich and plentifull country, full of corn and cattle, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony...came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their... | |
 | Joseph Fisher (F.R.H.S.) - Land tenure - 1877 - 176 pages
...plentiful country, yet they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would rise at the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens...came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not carry them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their... | |
 | 1843 - 272 pages
...have beene able to stand long, yet ere one yeare 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 hands, for their legges could not beare them, they looked... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1878 - 734 pages
...terrible as anything in human history. Thus Spenser, describing what he had seen in Minister, tells how, ' out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came...bear them. They looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrion, happy when they could... | |
 | 1878 - 608 pages
...have thought they (the Irish) should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony...rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they came, creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - Ireland - 1878 - 574 pages
...cattle, . . . yet ere one yeare and a half they " (the Irish) " were brought to such wretchednesse as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of woods and glynnes, they came creeping forthe upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - Ireland - 1878 - 612 pages
...cattle, . . . yet ere one yeare and a half they " (the Irish) " were brought to such wretchednesse as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of woods and glynnes, they came creeping forthe upon their hands, for their Icgges could not beare them... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 516 pages
...you would have thought they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a halfe they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony...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... | |
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Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves... 
