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" ... 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 therewithal; that in short space... "
Home Government for Ireland: Irish Federalism! Its Meaning, Its Objects, and ... - Page 100
by Isaac Butt - 1871 - 116 pages
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Vindiciæ Hibernicæ: Or, Ireland Vindicated:: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...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 country SUDDAINLY LEFT VOYDF. OF MAN AND BEAST."99 * " And here you may see the nature and disposition...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh: For a Period of 1373 Years ...

James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue long therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." &c.* O Nial, deserted by his adherents, and destitute...
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Travels in Ireland in the Year 1822: Exhibiting Brief Sketches of the Moral ...

Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...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 most populous and plentiful country suddainely left voyde of man and beast ; yet, sure in all that warre, there perished not many...
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History of Ireland: From the Anglo-Norman Invasion Till the Union ..., Volume 2

William Cooke Taylor - Ireland - 1833 - 398 pages
...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 plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." This amorous poet, for his slanders of the Irish, his...
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The Condition and Fate of England ...

Charles Edwards Lester - England - 1843 - 336 pages
...shamrocks, 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 populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast." Even a poet's heart could refuse sympathy with such suffering,...
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The Life and Times of Aodh O'Neill, Prince of Ulster, Called by the English ...

John Mitchel - Ireland - 1845 - 266 pages
...abroad, by 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...
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The Tribes of Ireland: A Satire

Aengus O'Daly - Ireland - 1852 - 126 pages
...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 left voide of man and beaste ; yet sure in all that warre there perished not many by the...
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The tribes of Ireland: a satire, with poetical tr. by J. C. Mangan; together ...

Aenghus O'Daly - 1852 - 120 pages
...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 by the...
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Miscellanea: Comprising Reviews, Lectures, and Essays, on Historical ...

Martin John Spalding - Church history - 1855 - 698 pages
...shamrocks, to those 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 populous and plentiful country was suddenly left void of man and beast." These are but single pages in the long and sad history...
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The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings

Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal , that, in short space, there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast : yet sure in all that war, there perished not many by...
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