 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 352 pages
...temperature of climate. The miserable dress, and diet, and dwelling of the people ; the general desolation ia most parts of the kingdom ; the old seats of the nobility and gently all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of farmers, who pay great rents,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 646 pages
...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...kingdom ; the old seats of the nobility and gentry in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of the farmers, who pay great rents, living... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - Ireland - 1828 - 496 pages
...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...kingdom; the old seats of the nobility and gentry in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of the farmers, who pay great rents, living... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - Ireland - 1829 - 542 pages
...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 • Ellis, Original Letters, 2d series, b List of Absentees, p. 32. vol. iv. pp. 318,319. $ III.] AND... | |
 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - Great Britain - 1836 - 136 pages
...thorn of Glastonbury, that blossoms in the midst of the winter." J " The miserable dress, diet, and dwelling of the people, the general desolation in...parts of the kingdom, the old seats of the nobility in ruins, and no new ones in their stead, the families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth... | |
 | Robert Benton Seeley - Great Britain - 1842 - 706 pages
...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...kingdom ; the old seats of the nobility and gentry in ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of the farmers, who pay great rents, living... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...as ours, both in fruitfulness of soil and *emj>erature of climate. The miserable dress and diet, and dwelling of the people; the general desolation in...families of farmers, who pay great rents, living in 61th and Hastiness upon buttermilk and potatoes, without a shoe or stocking to their feet, or a bouse... | |
 | Asenath Nicholson - Famines - 1850 - 464 pages
...nature as ours, both in fruitfulness of soil and temperature of climate. The miserable dress and diet of the people ; the general desolation in most parts...ruins, and no new ones in their stead ; the families of the farmers, who pay great rents, living in filth and nastiness upon buttermilk and potatoes, without... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Ireland - 1861 - 224 pages
...a cause of bitter complaints in the time of Swift, who includes in the general picture of misery " the old seats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead." It was natural that the gentry should avoid the sight of so much wretchedness ; it was natural that... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - Ireland - 1861 - 222 pages
...bitter complaints in the time of Swift, who includes in the general picture of misery " the old scats of the nobility and gentry all in ruins, and no new ones in their stead." It was natural that the gentry should avoid the sight of so much wretchedness ; it was natural that... | |
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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... 
