... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and, if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; that in short... Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others - Pągina 280per Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 507 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801
...in a country so favoured by nature as ours, both in fruitfulness of soil and temperature of climate. The miserable dress, and diet, and dwelling of the...the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom ; the old seats .of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801
...in a country so favoured by nature as ours, both in fruitfulness of soil and temperature of climate. The miserable dress, and diet, and dwelling of the...the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom ; the old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1807
...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... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1811
...a country so favoured by nature as ours, both in fruitfulness of soil, and temperature of climate. The miserable dress and diet, and dwelling of the...The general desolation in most parts of the kingdom. The old scats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead. The families... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1811
...ours, both in fruitfulness of soil, and temperature of climate. The miserable dress and diet, arid dwelling of the people. The general desolation in most parts of the kingdom. The old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins,, and no new ones in their stead. The families... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812
...in a country so favoured by nature as ours, both in fruitfulness of soil and temperature of climate. The miserable dress, and diet, and dwelling of the people ; the general desolation ia most parts of the kingdom ; the old seats of the nobility and gently all in ruins, and no new ones... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814
...in a country so favoured by nature as ours, both in fruitfulness of soil and temperature of climate. The miserable dress, and diet, and dwelling of the...the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom ; the old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1819 - 500 pągines
...out of their graves ,• and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, 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... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 375 pągines
...scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of water-cresses 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 left, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1823 - 512 pągines
...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... | |
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