 ... ere one year and a half they were brought to 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 legs could not bear them ; they looked...  Limerick: its history and antiquities - Page 110by Maurice Lenihan - 1866Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...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 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 like... | |
 | Ireland - 1860 - 752 pages
...have beene able to stand long, yet ere one yearc and a halfe they were brought to such wretchednessc, as that any stony heart would have rued the same....woods and glynnes, they came creeping forth upon their * Of the woods and glynnes.] Glens, that is, dales or rallies; here spelt in the original edition glynnts... | |
 | Ireland - 1860 - 754 pages
...yon would have thought they should have beene able to stand long, yet ere one yeare and a halfe they were brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony...rued the same. Out of every corner* of the woods and glynncs, they came creeping fortli upon their * Of the icoodt and glyimes.] Glens, that is, dales or... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Ireland - 1861 - 222 pages
...the state of Mnnster after these wars. The people, he says, "were there brought to such 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 would not bear them; they looked like... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1861 - 852 pages
...VIII. and Elizabeth: — "Ere one year and a half, they [the natives] were brought to such 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 like... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1862 - 530 pages
...a halfe they were brought to 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, for their legges could not beare them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they fpake like ghofts crying... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 510 pages
...miles nor ever find a house standing ;' ' and the miserable poor were brought to such wretchedness 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 1 Cecil to Sir N. Arnold, February... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 508 pages
...miles nor ever find a bouse standing ;' ' and the miserable poor were brought to such wretchedness 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 Cecil to Sir N. Arnold, February 1S.—Irish... | |
 | Mark Hutton - Ireland - 1864 - 354 pages
...says (I remember well the words) : ' The Irish were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stonie heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth on their hands, for the legges would not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death : they spake... | |
 | Patrick Francis Moran - Bishops - 1864 - 214 pages
...country, full of corn and cattle, yet, ere one year and a-half, they were brought to such 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 like... | |
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