 ... 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
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 382 pages
...expressed compunction at the effects of English policy: "[The Irish] 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 would not bear them. . . . They did... | |
 | David Power Conyngham - Martyrs - 2001 - 267 pages
...stand long ; yet, in one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stoney 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... | |
 | Melissa Fegan - History - 2002 - 294 pages
...Ireland (1596) reads very much like a travel narrative or journalistic report from Ireland in 1847: 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, 5 Thomas Flanagan, 'Literature... | |
 | Patrick Brantlinger - History - 2003 - 276 pages
...most rich and plentiful! countrey, full of corne and cattle . . . yet ere one yeare and a hälfe 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... | |
 | Joseph Lennon - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 524 pages
...Desmond Rebellion, which Spenser's narrator claims to have witnessed firsthand (as Spenser may have) : 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 spake like ghosts crying... | |
 | David Johnson - Canon - 2005 - 468 pages
...you 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...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... | |
 | Deana Rankin - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 316 pages
...the famine-stricken natives find their way into the words of Irenaeus, words first published in 1633: 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 spake like ghosts crying... | |
 | Merry E. Wiesner - History - 2006 - 522 pages
...have been able to stand long, yet before 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 wood and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they... | |
 | George Bornstein - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 206 pages
...to that in the famous description of the Munster famine during the Desmond Rebellion, which begins "Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forward upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them, they looked like anatomies of death,... | |
 | Colin MacCabe - History - 2007 - 104 pages
...would 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... | |
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