 ... 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 long to continue there withal; that in short space...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 6851881Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Warton - Epic poetry, English - 1807 - 354 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves. And if they found a plot of water-cresses, or shamrockes, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time ; yet not able long to continue there withall, &c*." Spenser himself died in Ireland, in the most wretched condition, amid the desolations... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 498 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrocks, here 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 plentifull... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...they were among the worst of the human species,* other soone after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...feast for the time ; yet not able long to continue therewithall ; that in short space there were none almost k-ft, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...happy where they could finde them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and...feast, for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves; and if they found a plot of r water-cresses or shamrock's, 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 left, and a mast populous and plentiful country... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1831 - 690 pages
...upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them, they looked like anatomies of death, they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat...feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal, that in short space there were none left, and a most populous plentiful country suddenly... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...carrions, happy where 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...feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal, that in short space there were none left, and a most populous, plentiful country suddenly... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they ^found a plot of watercressee or shamrocks, they 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... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Ireland - 1833 - 398 pages
...not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot; of watercresses, or shamrocks, 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 populous and... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Ballads, English - 1839 - 382 pages
...rebellion, of which he was an eye-witness, speaking of the wretched and famishing Irish, tells us that '' if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks,...feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal." But these passages, as referring to a period of national distress and famine consequent... | |
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