 ... 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
 | 1860 - 752 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 therewithall ; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful!... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1861 - 224 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 ; so that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1861 - 852 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1861 - 702 pàgines
...both in fruitfulness of soil and temperature of climate. The miserable dress and diet^ and dwelling1 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... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1862 - 220 pàgines
...happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, in so much as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves; and,...feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal ; so that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
 | Maurice Lenihan - 1866 - 820 pàgines
...scrape out of the graves; and if they found. a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they Hocked 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 plentyfull country... | |
 | Martin Haverty - 1867 - 798 pàgines
...scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, then thty flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue therewithal : that in sliort space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful!... | |
 | Alexander George Richey - 1870 - 508 pàgines
...scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they thronged 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 country... | |
 | Patrick Lavelle - 1870 - 570 pàgines
...blessed by nature, must continue poor."* Again, describing the condition of the people, he says : " The miserable dress and diet and dwelling of the people...the general desolation in most parts of the kingdom ; the old seats of the nobility and the gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families... | |
 | 1870 - 440 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 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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