 | Authors, English - 1880 - 566 pages
...to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 778 pages
...to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1890 - 458 pages
...to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1892 - 488 pages
...tells what he saw of the starvation of the Irish " in those late wars in Munster," so that " any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the wood and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they... | |
 | William Healy - Kilkenny (Ireland : County) - 1893 - 610 pages
...brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of th* woods and glynnes they came, creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 624 pages
...to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of... | |
 | Alfred Young - Christian sociology - 1894 - 660 pages
...confiscated acres, and who actually recommended the continuance of the barbarities he thus describes : " Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them. They looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of... | |
 | 1895 - 610 pages
...to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought. to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1899 - 200 pages
...brought to such wretchedness as that uii) stony heart would have rued the same. Out ol 68 SPENSER. [CHAP. every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of... | |
 | Humphrey Joseph Desmond - History - 1901 - 344 pages
...Edmund Spenser thus describes what he saw in Munster after the suppression of the Geraldine revolt : " Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they...forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bare them, they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ;... | |
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... they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death... 
