 ... 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 - Pàgina 280per Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 507 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 pàgines
...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 - 448 pàgines
...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 - 354 pàgines
...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 - 590 pàgines
...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 - 584 pàgines
...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 - 352 pàgines
...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 - 610 pàgines
...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 - 536 pàgines
...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 - 456 pàgines
...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 - 534 pàgines
...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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