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" 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 swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly... "
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth ... - Page vii
by John Milton - 1763
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A Select Collection of Modern Poems

English poetry - 1744 - 198 pages
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - English poetry - 1750 - 674 pages
...againft Archbifhop Laud, and to have threaten'd him with the lofs of his head, which afterwards happened to him thro* the fury of his enemies. At leaft I can...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid ; But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. About this...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - 1750 - 666 pages
...againft Archbifhop Laud, and to have threaten'd him with the lofs of his bead, which afterwards happened to him thro' the fury of his enemies. At leaft I can...proper to be given to the following verfes in Lycidas, Bcfides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid -, But that two-handed...
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A Letter Concerning a New Edition of Spenser's Faerie Queene. To Gilbert ...

John Upton - 1751 - 54 pages
...not fed, But fwoln with wind, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly and foul contagion fpread : Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing fed, . . • *, '. But that two-handed engine at the door . . Stands ready to. fmite once, and fmite...
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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time ..., Volume 2

Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...his head, a fate which he afterwards met, thro' the fury of his enemies ; at leaft, fay» Dr. Newton, I can think of no fe.nfe fo proper to be given to the following verfes in Lycidas i Fcfulcs what the grim wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace, and nothing laid ; But that two-handed...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. From the ...

John Milton - Epic poetry, English - 1759 - 608 pages
...with the lofs of his head, which afterwards happened to him thro' the fury of his enemies. At leaft 1 can think of no fenfe fo proper to be given to the...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid ; But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. About this...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson ...

John Milton - English poetry - 1759 - 420 pages
...fed; 125 But fwoln with wind, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread : Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid, But that two-handed engin at the door 130 Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. Return...
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Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser, Volume 1

Thomas Warton - Criticism, Textual - 1762 - 264 pages
...occafionally written SED. This practice was continued as far down as the age of Milton. • B. «. cz Bell Jes what the grim wolf, with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing SED. Said is thus printed SED in the edition of 1645, that it might appear to rhyme, with greater propriety,...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord ...

William Harris - Great Britain - 1762 - 544 pages
...But fwoln with wind, and the rank miir. they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread ; Befldes what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid. MILTON. This is not meerly a poetical exaggeration. Soon after thefe lines were written, a polite...
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An Historical and Critical Account of the Life of Oliver Cromwell, Lord ...

William Harris - Great Britain - 1762 - 564 pages
...But fwoln with wind, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread : Betides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid. MILTON. This is not meerly a poetical exaggeration. Soon after thefe lines were written, a polite...
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