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
 | 1824 - 456 pages
...Archbishop Laud, whom he considered as the cause of all tbe schisms then existing in the church — Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. The opinion... | |
 | David Simpson - 1825 - 398 pages
...unless we live in the spirit of the Gospel. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist .they draw, Rot inwardly,...nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words of Milton are certainly severe, but yet... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...Grate on their serannel pipes of wretehed straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swolTn eontagion spread ; ' Besides what the grim wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apaee ; and nothing... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 336 pages
...with impunity and success in the court, the country, and even the universities. One of the sheep, Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, is Mr William Chillingworth, Master of Arts, and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford ; who, at the ripe... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...Wliat 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 ;...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 538 pages
...universities of the converts to the Roman faith daily made within their colleges; of those sheep, «Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said.» In approaching Dryden, therefore, a Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal prejudices... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...universities of the converts to the Roman faith daily made within their colleges; of those sheep, — «Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said.» In approaching Dryden, therefore, a Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal prejudices... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 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 ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swolnwith wind and the rank mist they draw, * One of the Nereides, who wa» commonly invoked by mariners... | |
 | 1827 - 600 pages
...fidelity ; and though the source of the evil be different, while they ' their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up and are not fed.' We would by no means insinuate that this want of simplicity is always the result of intellectual... | |
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