 ... 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
 | 1864 - 990 pages
...thirty 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 could not bear them ; they looked like... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Great Britain - 1866 - 316 pages
...those acts which had reduced the Irish peasantry to the state he thus fearfully describes. He says," 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 like anatomies of death — they spake like ghosts crying... | |
 | John Ferguson McLennan - Ireland - 1867 - 502 pages
..." that the same was a most rich and plentifull countrey, . . . yet, ere one yeare and a halfe, they were brought to such wretchednesse as that any stony...glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying... | |
 | Martin Haverty - Ireland - 1867 - 798 pages
...cattle ye» ere one yeare and a halfe, they (the Irish) were brought to snch wretchednesse] as jthat any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every...glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their laggea could not bear them : they looked like anatomies of death : they spake like ghosts crying... | |
 | James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...thirty 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 could not bear them ; they looked like... | |
 | Alexander George Richey - Ireland - 1870 - 508 pages
...have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and one-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... | |
 | William Steuart Trench - 1871 - 400 pages
...same was a most rich and plentiful countrey, full of corne and cattle yet ere one yeare and ahalfe they (the Irish) were brought to such wretchednesse...glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying... | |
 | Isaac Butt - Federal government - 1871 - 132 pages
...stand long, yet ere one year and a halfe they were brought to such wretchednesse as that any stoney heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them, they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying... | |
 | Martin Haverty - Ireland - 1872 - 794 pages
...cattle J* ere one yeare and a halfe, they (the Irish) were brought to such wretchednesse^ as )tbat any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every...glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their leggei could not bear them : they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 928 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'... | |
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