 ... 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
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - 1828 - 496 pàgines
...than 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 in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 646 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 in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - 690 pàgines
...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 there withal, that in short space there were none left, and a most populous plentiful country suddenly... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 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 there withal, that in short space there were none left, and a most populous, plentiful country suddenly... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 518 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... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 496 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... | |
 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - 1836 - 136 pàgines
...like the thorn of Glastonbury, that blossoms in the midst of the winter." J " The miserable dress, diet, and dwelling of the people, the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom, the old seats of the nobility in ruins, and no new ones in their stead, the families of farmers, who... | |
 | 1828 - 636 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 in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1839 - 370 pàgines
...rebellion, of which he was an eye-witness, speaking of the wretched and famishing Irish, tells us that " if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks,...feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal." But these passages, as referring to a period of national distress and famine consequent... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1839 - 382 pàgines
...famishing Irish, tells us that '' 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 there withal." But these passages, as referring to a period of national distress and famine consequent... | |
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