 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1895 - 1134 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... | |
 | 1895 - 610 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 stony...rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked... | |
 | Literature - 1917 - 884 pages
...Elizabeth's wars to Ireland! "Out of every corner of the woods and glens," he wrote in a famous passage, "they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their...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... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1897 - 586 pages
...cattle, yet ere one yearc and a halfe the people were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony hart 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, and if they... | |
 | Benjamin Terry - Great Britain - 1901 - 1156 pages
...did not cease. Edmund Spenser, the poet, has left a pitiful picture of the sufferings of the people: "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 - 1902 - 1118 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... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1904 - 1074 pages
...you would have thought they should have been able to stand long, vet ere one year and one half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony...bear them: they looked like anatomies of death: they spoke like ghosta crying out of their graves: they did eat the dead carrions, happy when they could... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...(Lord Grey of Wilton), reported on the effects upon the Irish of the Desmond Rebellion (1579-1583): 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 little anatomies of death; they spoke like ghosts crying out... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 384 pages
...Spenser, defended torture and murder expressed compunction at the effects of English policy: "[The Irish] were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony...came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them. . . . They did eat of the dead carions." 35 The human cost of imperial ambition... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 356 pages
...that you would have thought they would have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony...hands, for their legs could not bear them. They looked anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat of the dead carrions,... | |
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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... 
