 | William Gleeson - Anti-Catholicism - 1880 - 592 pages
...they nocked as to a great feast for the time, and not able to continue there long withal, so that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country was suddenly left void of man and beast."* The account given in the foregoing of the deplorable condition... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - 1881 - 160 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." Let us glance at the rebellion of 1600. The leader of that rebellion was Hugh O'Neil, on... | |
 | Charles George Walpole - Ireland - 1882 - 668 pages
...shamrocks, there they thronged as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there with-all ; that in short space there were none almost left ; and a most populous and plentiful country left void of man and beast." And the evidence of Sir William Pelham himself as to the mode of conducting... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 778 pages
...there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long 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 ; yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine... | |
 | Richard William Church - Novelists, English - 1883 - 204 pages
...there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue there withal ; that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful countrj suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the... | |
 | United States - 1912 - 788 pages
...or shamrocks, there they thronged as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left; and a most populous and plentiful country left void of man and beast." One should, I repeat, take a course in Irish history — or English history... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1890 - 462 pages
...watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal; that in short space there were none almost...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast; yet, sure, in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine... | |
 | Henry Morley - Ireland - 1890 - 644 pages
...watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short space there were none...populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast." But the eye for small things, the ear for gossip in the English camp, which, near truth... | |
 | Charles Owen O'Conor O'Conor Don, John O'Donovan - Connacht (Ireland) - 1891 - 476 pages
...there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left devoid of man and beasts." Such was the melancholy condition to which the greater part of Ireland was... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1892 - 484 pages
...there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most...populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast." Spenser wrote of the state of Ireland in his time with a full sense of the gravity of the... | |
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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... 
