 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
 | Benjamin Hanbury - 1841 - 628 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 ;...nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more ! " " In these lines," says Dr. Thomas Warton, " our... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 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, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 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... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1840 - 88 pages
...motives of action : and to enjoin, 1 . ' r. " Who, when they list, their lean and flashy songs i . Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ;...draw, ' Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread." LYCIDAS. May not some of the unamiable ; reproachful ; and degrading traits, in the national character,... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look on, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | Susan Snyder - 1998 - 268 pages
...ever-mounting abuses in the present-day church the anguish of time that comes through is delay. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. (125-29) How long must it go on before something is said, before the "corrupted clergy ... in their... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...belongs! 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... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1913 - 1112 pages
...Professor of English Literature at Yale University "The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But stuoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread." MILTON, "Lycidas." ONE of to-day's favorite questions, both in private speculation and in public debate,... | |
 | Oxford University Press, TME. - 1999 - 1160 pages
...(The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). 'Lycidas' (1638) I. 108 6 Their lean and flashy songs (¡rate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. 'Lycidas' 1 1 ft 3X1 1. 12 i 7 But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 pages
...utter a jeremiad against prelarical wolves who abandon pastoral care and misappropriate church wealth: 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. (1l. 128-31) A headnote added to the 1645 edition guided... | |
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