 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 562 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 glynns they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked... | |
 | Caesar Otway - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1839 - 414 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, fjr their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death;... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1843 - 336 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 out... | |
 | Michael John Brenan - Ireland - 1845 - 528 pages
...to stand long; yet in 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... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Ireland - 1851 - 388 pages
...would have been able to 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....woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their * SEVERITIES OF CROMWELL. 27 hands, for their legges could not bear them. They looked like anatomies... | |
 | Walter Bourchier Devereux - Nobility - 1853 - 604 pages
...county, full of corn and cattle ; but then " was " brought to such wretchedness, that the most stony " heart would have rued the same ; out of every " corner of the woods and glens they came creeping " forth on their hands, for their legs would not bear " them ; they looked... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 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... | |
 | Ireland - 1860 - 752 pages
...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. Out of every corner...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
...stand long, yet ere one yeare and a halfe they were brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony heart would have 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
...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... | |
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... 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 anatomies of death... 
