 | Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1843 - 336 pages
...to these they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal, that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Even a poet's heart could refuse sympathy with such suffering, because forsooth, it came from Irishmen... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 pages
...flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue 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 brave old Earl of Desmond, who had a large share of that bull-dog courage which was considered... | |
 | Ireland - 1845 - 882 pages
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 | John Mitchel - Ireland - 1845 - 266 pages
...this hard restraint they would quickly consume themselves and devoure one another."! And so " in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull countrey suddainly left voyde of man and beast." And starvation being in some instances... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1847 - 636 pages
...as to a feast for a time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in a short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast."* The English Lord Deputy at this time, Perrott, was a wise statesman, and brave soldier, but his intentions... | |
 | Robert King - Ireland - 1846 - 496 pages
...flocked as to a feast for a 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." Such were the blessings procured by the bulls of the pope's holiness for his deluded and... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 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 same system was adopted in Leinster and Ulster, as famine was supposed the most speedy and effectual... | |
 | 1850 - 548 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 voidjof man and beast." The same system was adopted in Leinster and Ulster, as famine was supposed... | |
 | JOHN CASSELL - 1851 - 446 pages
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 | Aenghus O'Daly - 1852 - 120 pages
...shamrocks there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithall, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful countrey suddainley lefi voide of man and beaste ; yet sure in all that warre there perished not many... | |
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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... 
