 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,...  Memoirs of John Dryden - Page 10by Walter Scott - 1826Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...swoll'n 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 engin at the door, 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Their bells,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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 apace, and nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smire once, and smice no more. About this... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Butswoll'n 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 engin at the dcor, Stands ready to smite once, and smiie no more. Return Alpheus,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...towards the end of Charles II.'s reign, the High-Church-men and the Catholics regarded themselves as on the same side in political questions, and not greatly...Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal premeanings of the Protestant sects; every objection was resolved into omnipotence ; and, after repeating... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...swolfn 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 tlie door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...swoll'n 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 door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return Alphèus,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...swoIPn 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 door, 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more/1 Return.... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 542 pages
...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. MiLfoS. This is not merely a poetical exaggeration. Soon after these lines were written, a polite writer,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus,... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 618 pages
...swoll'n 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, &c. CHAPTER LVII. 1. THE righteous hath perished ' from off the earth,' But no man considereth : t... | |
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