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Home Government for Ireland: Irish Federalism! Its Meaning, Its Objects, and ... - Page 100
by Isaac Butt - 1871 - 116 pages
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The Rock of Arranmore: A Narrative Dramatic Poem in Three Scenes with ...

John O'Neill - American poetry - 1902 - 164 pages
...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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The Twentieth Century, Volume 55

Nineteenth century - 1904 - 1072 pages
...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 caine creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them : they looked...
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Gaodhal, Volume 23

Ireland - 1904 - 276 pages
...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...
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The rock of Arranmore, a dramatic poem

John O'Neill - 1904 - 164 pages
...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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AN ENGLISH PROSE MISCELLANY

JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...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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The Life of Sir Humphrey Gilbert: England's First Empire Builder

William Gilbert Gosling - America - 1911 - 368 pages
...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...
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Ireland: Its Scenery, Character and History, Volume 1

Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - Ireland - 1911 - 440 pages
...were brought to such wretchedness, that even a heart of stone would have rued to see the same; for out of every corner of the woods and glynnes, they came creeping forth on their hands and knees, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death;...
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A Concise History of Ireland ...

Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1912 - 358 pages
...ere one yeare and a halfe they [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 glynnea they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them, and if they...
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The Cutting of an Agate

William Butler Yeats - Irish essays - 1912 - 286 pages
...stand long, yet ere one yeare and a halfe they were brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stonye heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woodes and glynnes they came creeping forth upon theyr hands, for theyr legges could not beare them;...
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Archivium Hibernicum: Or, Irish Historical Records, Volumes 6-7

Archives - 1917 - 1082 pages
...people of Munster : "In one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any strong 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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