"Black death" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... never know How the times away do go; But for us, who wisely see Where the bounds of black death be, Let's live merrily, and thus Gratify ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... had been killed in Edward's French and Scottish wars that there were too few left to till the land. Then came a terrible disease called the Black Death, slaying young and old, rich and poor, until nearly half the people ...
— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall
... the Poisoner! Nicolo the Black Death! I am coming for the soul you sold me. There ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston
... unprecedented except in its Indian abode, whence it had advanced city by city, seaport by seaport, sweeping down multitudes before it; nor had science yet discovered how to encounter or forestall it. We heard of it in a helpless sort of way, as if it had been the plague or the Black Death, and thought of ...
— Chantry House • Charlotte M. Yonge
... calamity at once so sudden and of such appalling magnitude as the famine which in the spring and summer of 1770 nearly exterminated the ancient civilization of Bengal. It presents that aspect of preternatural vastness which characterizes the continent of Asia and all that concerns it. The Black Death of the fourteenth century was, perhaps, the most fearful visitation which has ever afflicted the Western world. But in the concentrated misery which it occasioned the Bengal famine surpassed it, even as the Himalayas dwarf by comparison the highest peaks ...
— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske
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