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
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 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, 135 But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 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, 125 But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Hot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pages
...universities of the converts to the Roman faith daily made within then- 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 - 1834 - 488 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,... | |
 | 1836 - 558 pages
...What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songt Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and arc not fed, But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 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... | |
 | 1838 - 380 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 :...privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said." . So great was the influence acquired by Cromwell, in his masterly seizure of such grievances as these,... | |
 | Asiatic journal - 1838 - 1244 pages
...tirade the more impressive, that vehement declamation of the poet on the abuses of the Romish church, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to mute once and smite no more. " For it does its work," he continued, " quite clean.... | |
 | 1838 - 430 pages
...tirade the more impressive, that vehement declamation of the poet on the abuses of the Romish church, 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. " For it does its work," he continued, " quite clean.... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on then- scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
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