 | Thomas Addis Emmet - Ireland - 1903 - 382 pages
...starres, or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation, or that hee reserveth her in this unquiet state still for some secret scourge...England, it is hard to be knowne, but yet much to be feared." Three hundred years have not changed the situation, as England has continued to be as indifferent... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1904 - 388 pages
...stars, or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation, or that he reserveth her in this unquiet state still for some secret scourge,...which shall by her come unto England, it is hard to be known, but yet much to be feared.' The poet failed to recognise any justice in the claims of Irish... | |
 | Michael Davitt - Ireland - 1904 - 780 pages
...variable stormes of affliction. Perhaps Almighty God reserveth Ireland in this unquiete state stille, for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England; it is hard to be knowne, but yet more to be feared." OLIVER CROMWELL " ' These poor people,' said Cromwell, ' have been accustomed to... | |
 | Julian Hill - English poetry - 1907 - 378 pages
...of her reformation, or that He reserveth her in this unquiett state still for some secret scourdge which shall by her come unto England, it is hard to be knowen but yet much to be feared. The " unquiett state " in which Grey, as Lord Deputy, and Spenser,... | |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet - Revolutionaries - 1915 - 760 pages
...starrs, or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation, or that hee reseroeth her in this unquiet state still for some secret scourge...England, it is hard to be knowne but yet much to be feared. Edmund Spenser, State of Ireland, (596. REPRODUCTION BY ANNA FRANCES LEVINS Thomas A. Emmet,... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1879 - 796 pages
...stars, or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation, or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England, is hard to be known, but yd much to be feared." — Spenser's View, etc. 100,000 inhabitants got an... | |
 | Paul Johnson - History - 1994 - 434 pages
...wrote of Ireland that "Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation," but "reserveth her in this unquiet state still for some secret scourge, which shall by her come into England." The outstanding fact of the British-Irish connection has been the fearful toll it has... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Drama - 1999 - 334 pages
...Ireland "proceed from the very Grmia of the toil ... or that [God] reserveth her in this unquiet stale still, for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England" (3l, while in 1582 Lodowick Brysketl was of the opinion that "the secret Judgment of God hangeth over... | |
 | Michael Neill - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 556 pages
...that the problems of Ireland "proceed from the very Genius of the soil ... or that [God] reserveth her in this unquiet state still, for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England" (p. 3); Lodowick Bryskett (1582) was of the opinion that "the secret judgement of God hangeth over... | |
 | David Glimp - Demography - 2003 - 264 pages
...speculates, perhaps England's failures in Ireland resulted from the fact that "Almighty God... reserveth her in this unquiet state still for some secret scourge, which shall by her come unto England." 52 My purpose in observing the relevance of Henry's prophecy is not only to note the considerable emotion... | |
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He reserveth her in this unquiet state still, for some secret scourge, which shall by her come unto England, it is hard to be known, but yet much to be feared. 
