 ... 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
 | 1839 - 648 pàgines
...famishing Irish, tells us that ' If they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked i\ to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal.' B;T. these passages, as referring to a period of national distress and fanriK consequent... | |
 | Robert Benton Seeley - 1842 - 706 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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 pàgines
...both in fruitfulness of soil and temperature of climate. The miserable dress, and diet, and dwellings 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 - 1850 - 900 pàgines
...a country so favoured by nature as ours, both in fruitfulness of soil and *emj>erature 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... | |
 | Asenath Nicholson - 1850 - 464 pàgines
...nature as ours, both in fruitfulness of soil and temperature of climate. The miserable dress and diet 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... | |
 | Aengus O'Daly - 1852 - 126 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 therewithall, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful countrey... | |
 | Aenghus O'Daly - 1852 - 120 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 therewithall, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful countrey... | |
 | Aengus O'Daly - 1852 - 124 pàgines
...serape out of their grates ; and if they found a plot of watereresses or shamroeks there they floeked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to eontinue therewithall, that in short spaee there were none almost left, and a most popalous and plentiful... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1857 - 600 pàgines
...scrape out of their graves ; and if tbey 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 almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 680 pàgines
...in a country so favored 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... | |
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