... 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
| 1881 - 830 pągines
...rather than in a country so favoured 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... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 342 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...miserable dress and diet and dwelling of the people, die general desolation in most parts of the kingdom.' He says :— Some persons of a desponding spirit... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1882 - 622 pągines
...favoured "by nature as ours, both in fruitfulness of soil, and temperature of climate. The miserable dens, 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... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 522 pągines
...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 - 1883 - 516 pągines
...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... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1890 - 458 pągines
...carrions, happy when they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch 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; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
| Henry Morley - 1890 - 644 pągines
...and if they found a plot of water1 Manurance, cultivation. 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 almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1891 - 252 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...dwelling of the people, the general desolation in most pans of the kingdom.' He says : — ' Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about... | |
| Charles Owen O'Conor O'Conor Don, John O'Donovan - 1891 - 476 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 a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful... | |
| James Hay - 1891 - 390 pągines
...both in fruitfulness of soil and temperature of climate. The miserable dens, and dirt, 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... | |
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