 The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the...  L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas - Page 54by John Milton - 1900 - 130 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, su oln with wind and the rank mist they draw, . Bot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 618 pages
...What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed ; But, swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are hot fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...[sped ; What recks it them ? What need they ? They are And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw :...nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alphens, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 pages
...enemies. At least I can think of no sense so proper to be given to the following verses in Lycidas, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...! Whatrecksitthem? what need they ? they are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs ow. MORAL ESSAYS, IX FOUR EPISTLES. TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD СОВНAЛi. Of the Knowledge a swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...W. vol. i. •rfbu tu in triviis, indocte, solebu •ntidir'i miserum stipula dispcrdcre ciirmen ? Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:... | |
 | 1901 - 744 pages
...What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed." MAURICE G. HERING. THE NEW SNOBBISHNESS. IN the WESTMINSTER REVIEW Lady Grove writes on the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...miserum stipula disperdere carmen ? I remember not to have seen the word scrannel in any other auGrate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...recks it them? What need they? They are And, when they 'list, their lean and flashy songs •tírate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But, swoln with wind, and therank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
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