 | Nineteenth century - 1904 - 1074 pages
...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...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 find them... | |
 | 1881 - 1092 pages
...this picture of Irish misery by the poet Spenser : — Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did oat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 508 pages
...picture of Irish 15 misery by the poet Spenser: — "Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs...bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where 30 they could... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - History - 1983 - 646 pages
...was there, describes Munster after its devastation: Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands for their legs...bear them, they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...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...their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them; yea and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared... | |
 | Jürgen Elvert - History - 1994 - 598 pages
...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;...like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat dead carrions, happy where they could find them; yea and one another soon after, insomuch as their... | |
 | Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 356 pages
...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 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,... | |
 | Rebecca Solnit - History - 1997 - 206 pages
...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...bear them. They looked like anatomies of death. They spake like ghosts crying out of their graves. They did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
 | Rebecca Solnit - History - 1998 - 196 pages
...upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death. They spake like ghosts crying out of their graves. They did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared... | |
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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 spake like ghosts crying out of their graves... 
