 | 1839 - 648 Seiten
...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, there they flocked i\ to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal.' B;T. these passages, as referring... | |
 | Irishman - 1840 - 256 Seiten
...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...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue therewithal, that in short space, there was none almost left, and a most plentiful... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - 1844 - 312 Seiten
...death. They spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy when they could find them, yea, and one another soon after,...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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 Seiten
...happy where 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...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue withal ; that in short space there was none almost left, and a most populous... | |
 | Michael John Brenan - 1845 - 528 Seiten
...carrions, happy where they could find them, yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves —...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not being able long to continue therewithal, that in a short space there were none almost remaining... | |
 | Robert King - 1846 - 496 Seiten
...they looked like anatomies of death; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves: they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them,...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able to continue there withal: so that in short space there was none almost left, and... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 Seiten
...carrion, happy were 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...or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for a time, yet not able to continue there withal ; that in a short space, there was none almost left,... | |
 | Adam Blenkinsop, Sir William Henry Gregory - 1847 - 282 Seiten
...Rebellion," Preface. soone after; insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of the graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time ; yea, not able to continue there withal ; that in shorte space there was none almost left, and a most... | |
 | George Soane - 1847 - 360 Seiten
...; when speaking of the distress, to which the Irish were reduced by the wars in Munster, he says, " if they found a plot of water-cresses, or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time." View of the State of Ireland, AD 1596, Fol. Dublin, 1633. p. 72. That the Irish used the shamrock for... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere (calling himself earl of Oxford.) - 1848 - 280 Seiten
...insomuch as the 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 to continue long there withal." * At a later period the same writer recommended... | |
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