 | Electronic journals - 1864 - 580 pages
...spy saith, and in all to the number of vjC*. Sorley then also stood upon the mainland of the Glynns, and saw the taking of the island, and was likely to run mad for sorrow (as the spy saith), tearing and tormenting himself, and saying, that he then lost all that ever he... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1870 - 648 pages
...be all taken and executed to the number of six hundred.' Surleyboy himself, he continued, 'stoodupon the mainland of the Glynnes and saw the taking of the island, and was likely to have run mad for sorrow, tearing and tormenting himself, and saying that he there lost all that ever... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - History - 1870 - 744 pages
...executed to the number of six hundred.' Surleyboy himself, he continued, ' stood upon the main' land of the Glynnes and saw the taking of the island, ' and was likely to have run mad for sorrow, tearing ' and tormenting himself, and saying that he there lost 'all that... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1870 - 698 pages
...executed to the number of six hundred.' Surleyboy himself, he continued, ' stood upon the main' land of the Glynnes and saw the taking of the island, ' and was likely to have run mad for sorrow, tearing ' and tormenting himself, and saying that he there lost ' all that... | |
 | Thomas Gallwey - Irish poetry - 1874 - 112 pages
...' which be all taken and executed to the number of six hundred.' Sorleboy himself, he continued, ' stood upon the mainland of the Glynnes and saw the...run mad for sorrow, tearing and tormenting himself, and saying that he there lost all that he ever had.' The impression left upon the mind by this horrible... | |
 | Alfred Webb - Ireland - 1878 - 616 pages
...that we will not be unmindful of his good services." Essex says in his account of the transaction: "Sorley then also stood upon the mainland of the Glynnes,...sayeth, and saying that he then lost all he ever had." For eight years after Essex's death in 1576, Sorley MacDonnell seems to have reigned without a rival... | |
 | Richard Bagwell - Ireland - 1885 - 442 pages
...their wives, into the Bathlin with all his pledges, which be all taken and executed, as the spy saith, and in all to the number of 600. Sorley then also...Glynnes and saw the taking of the island, and was like to run mad for sorrow (as the spy saith), turning and tormenting himself, and saying that he then... | |
 | Angus Macdonald, Archibald Macdonald - Scotland - 1900 - 868 pages
...destruction was going on on the island, Sorley Buy, according to Essex, stood upon the mainland looking on, " and was likely to run mad for sorrow, tearing and tormenting himself, and saying that he then lost all he ever had." It was no doubt the most trying hour in the gallant... | |
 | Patrick Weston Joyce - Ireland - 1904 - 586 pages
...man's grief, all which he describes in a letter to an English friend. ' Sorley then also," he writes, ' stood upon the mainland of the Glynnes, and saw the...tearing and tormenting himself, as the spy sayeth.' It appears from this letter that, as Dr. Richey ' observes, ' far from being indignant at this butchery,... | |
 | Ramsay Colles - Northern Ireland - 1919 - 312 pages
...into the island, "which be all taken and executed to the number of 600". Sorley Boy himself, he wrote, "stood upon the mainland of the Glynnes and saw the taking of the island, and was likely to have run mad for sorrow, tearing and tormenting himself, and saying that he there lost all that ever... | |
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Surloyboy himself, he continued, " stood upon the mainland of the Glynnes and saw the " taking of the island, and was likely to have run mad for sorrow, •" tearing and tormenting himself, and saying that he there lost all 
