 | Religion - 1888 - 504 pages
...colonization, and he says: "They [the Irish] were brought to such wretchedness that any strong heart would rue the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens...bear them. They looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves. They did eat the dead carrions where they did find them,... | |
 | Richard Barry O'Brien - Home rule - 1890 - 222 pages
...terrible as anything in human history. Thus Spenser, describing what he had seen in Munster, 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... | |
 | Henry Morley - Ireland - 1890 - 644 pages
...terribly." He tells what he saw of the starvation of the Irish " in those late wars in Munster," so that " any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the wood and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 344 pages
...— in a single year. It is an English witness who tells us of the poor wretches who survived, that ' out of every corner of the woods and glens they came...their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1891 - 344 pages
...— in a single year. It is an English witness who tells us of the poor wretches who survived, that ' out of every corner of the woods and glens they came...their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
 | Charles Owen O'Conor O'Conor Don, John O'Donovan - Connacht (Ireland) - 1891 - 476 pages
...and Spenser's well-known description of the country leaves nothing to be added to it. He says : — "Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their handi, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ireland - 1892 - 518 pages
...terrible as anything in human history. Thus Spenser, describing what he had seen in Munster, 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... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1892 - 344 pages
...— in a single year. It is an English witness who tells us of the poor wretches who survived, that ' out of every corner of the woods and glens they came...their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1892 - 488 pages
...experience when he tells what he saw of the starvation of the Irish " in those late wars in Munster," so that " any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the wood and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they... | |
 | William Healy - Kilkenny (Ireland : County) - 1893 - 610 pages
...plentiful country, fall of corn and cattle, yet," says he, "ere one yeare and a-halfe they (the Irish) were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony...heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of th* woods and glynnes they came, creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them... | |
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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... 
