 | Thomas Moore - Botany Bay (N.S.W.) - 1824 - 404 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast*." The authors of this calamity reaped from it the expected fruits. Five hundred and seventy-four thousand... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast ! ! !" Who would imagine that in the midst of such scenes the "Fairy Queen" was written? Time,... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Absentee landlordism - 1825 - 200 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue them withal, that in short space there was none almost left ; and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." — State of Ireland, 1581. of Ormond, (" nothing inferior to Kildare in stomache, and in reach of... | |
 | William Phelan - Ireland - 1827 - 378 pages
...as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal : so that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast." God in his mercy grant this AD remnant of these faithful men had ventured to v^v^/ seize... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of rnan and beast."* The authors of this calamity reaped from it the expected fruits. Five hundred and... | |
 | William Phelan - 1832 - 378 pages
...the time, yet not able to continue there withal: so that, in short space, there was none almost led, and a most populous and plentiful country .suddenly left void of man or beast.' God in his mercy grant, thai this heart-rending picture may not again be realized. *—... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Ireland - 1833 - 398 pages
...to these they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue therewithall ; that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." This amorous poet, for his slanders of the Irish, his adulation of Elizabeth, and his flattery of his... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time. Yet not able to continue them without that, in a short time there was none almost left ; and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." — State of Ireland, 1581. Such was the " civilisation" the enlightened English introduced into our... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 pages
...as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast; yet sure, in all the war, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine,... | |
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... they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able... 
