 ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 160edited by - 1927Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Warton - 1807 - 354 pages
...spared not to scrape 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 - 1809 - 588 pages
...they spared not to 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 to continue there withal; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...thev spared not to 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 to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 732 pages
...they spared not to 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 to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1811 - 498 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrocks, here 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 plentifull countrey suddenly left... | |
 | John Lawless - 1815 - 558 pages
...spared not to scrape out of their graves -T and If they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocs, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in a short space there was none almost left, and a most populous aiul... | |
 | Mathew Carey - 1819 - 536 pages
...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 therewithall ; that in short space there were none almost k-ft, and a most populous and plentiful country SUDDAINLY LEFT VOYDE... | |
 | James Stuart - 1819 - 692 pages
...spared not lo scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses, or shamrock'!, there they flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue lonj therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous... | |
 | Irishman - 1822 - 48 pages
...carcases they spared not to scrape out of the graves, and if they found a plot of cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not being able long to continue there withalf." Such is the description of an eye-witness, and of one whose... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 456 pages
...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 space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country... | |
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