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McCoy holds that England exploits Ireland for her own purposes, is a merciless sucker of Hibernia's life-blood, a sweater, a slave-driver, a more than Egyptian taskmaster.
Robert John Buckley - Ireland as It Is: And as It Would be Under Home Rule

His prejudice against Scotland was announced almost as soon as he began to appear in the world of letters. In his London, a poem, are the following nervous lines: For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand There none are swept by sudden fate away; But all, whom hunger spares, with age decay.
James Boswell - The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

His prejudice against Scotland was announced almost as soon as he began to appear in the world of Letters. In his London, a poem, are the following nervous lines: 'For who would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land? Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand? There none are swept by sudden fate away; But all, whom hunger spares, with age decay.
James Boswell - Life of Johnson, Volume 5 : Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774)
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