 | James Johnson - 1844 - 406 pagini
...have hobbled up, and are howling supplications to the Lord. One is old and blind, and so diseased and hideous, that straightway all the pleasure of the...round about vanishes from you — that livid ghastly faces interpose between you and it. And so it is throughout the South and West of Ireland. The traveller... | |
 | James Johnson - 1844 - 400 pagini
...have hobbled up, and are howling supplications to the Lord. One is old and blind, and so diseased and hideous, that straightway all the pleasure of the sight round about vanishes from you—that livid ghastly faces interpose between you and it. And so it is throughout the South and... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1848 - 392 pagini
...hobbled up, and are howling sup. plications to the Lord. One is old and blind, and so diseased and hideous, that straightway all the pleasure of the...west of Ireland ; the traveller is haunted by the faca of the popular starvation. It is not the exception, it is the condition of the people. In this... | |
 | 1852 - 464 pagini
...in 1842, four years before the exhaustion of the soil had produced disease among the potatoes— " The traveller is haunted by the face of the popular starvation. It is not the exception—it is the condition of the people. In this fairest nnd richest of countries, men are suffering... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pagini
...souls." Have they no sympathies for Ireland, where, as their fellow-citizen, Thackeray, tells us: •' The traveller is haunted by the face of the popular...the exception — it is the condition of the people ;" whose population is " starving by millions" and where strong countrymen, unable to get work, are... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 404 pagini
...exhaustion of the soil had produced disease among the potatoes, gave the following description : ' " The traveller, is haunted by the face of the popular...people. In this fairest and richest of countries, mon are suffering and starving by millions. There are thousands of them, at this minute, stretched... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1857 - 386 pagini
...have hobbled up, and are howling supplications to the Lord. One is old and blind, and so diseased and hideous, that straightway all the pleasure of the sight round about vanishes from you—that livid ghastly face interposing between you and it. And so it is throughout the south and... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 512 pagini
...the traveller is haunted by the face of the popular itarvation. It is not the exception — it is tht condition of the people. In this fairest and richest of countries, men are suffering and tlarving by millions. There are thousands of them, at this minute, stretched in the sunshine at their... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1858 - 510 pagini
...lying unoccupied and waste. "Of single counties," said an English * " Throughout the west and south of Ireland, the traveller is haunted by the face of the popular ttarvation. It is Dot the exception — it is the condition of the people. In this fairest and richest... | |
 | Isaac Buchanan - 1864 - 618 pagini
...ii., chap. 10, p. 327. " Thackeray adds his testimony as follows : " ' Throughout the west and south of Ireland the traveller is haunted by the face of...popular starvation. It is not the exception — it ia the condition of the people. In this fairest and richest of countries, men are suffering and starving/... | |
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... between you and it. And so it is throughout the south and west of Ireland ; the traveller is haunted by the face of the popular starvation. It is not tbe exception, it is the condition of the people. 
