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" ... anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead 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... "
The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings - Page 500
by Edmund Spenser - 1857 - 549 pages
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Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 2

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...
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An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English ..., Volume 1

Dennis Taaffe - 1809 - 588 pages
...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 to continue there withal; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and...
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An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland: From the ...

John Curry - 1810 - 732 pages
...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 to continue there withal ; that, in short space, there was none almost left, and a most populous and...
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An historical and critical review of the civil wars in Ireland, from the ...

John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...after : insomuch, as the very carcasses 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...
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annals of ireland

the rev john graham - 1817 - 594 pages
...flocked as to a feast, for a time, yet not being able to continue there-whbal, in a short space of time there were none almost left, and a most populous and...country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet in that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine which they themselves...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 30

1831 - 1008 pages
...soon after, insomuch as the very carcases 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." In the rebellions of the two O'Neales, the horrors of war were also greatly aggravated by those of...
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Vindiciæ Hibernicæ: Or, Ireland Vindicated:: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - 1819 - 536 pages
...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...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 country...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh: For a Period of 1373 Years ...

James Stuart - 1819 - 692 pages
....soon 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...flocked, as to a feast, for the time, yet not able to continue long therewithal, that in short space, there were none almost left and a most populous...
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Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 2

Thomas Warton - 1820 - 350 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 withal], &c*." Spenser himself died in Ireland, in the most wretched condition, amid the desolations of this...
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Travels in Ireland in the Year 1822: Exhibiting Brief Sketches of the Moral ...

Thomas Reid - 1823 - 456 pages
...soon 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...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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