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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,... "
The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Dryden - Page 247
by Walter Scott - 1834
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Life of Dryden

Walter Scott - Chivalry - 1827 - 566 pages
...made a reproach to the English universities of the converts to the Roman faith daily made within their colleges ; of those sheep, " Whom the grim wolf with...Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal premeanings of the Protestant sects ; every objection was resolved into omnipotence ; and, after repeating...
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The miscellaneous prose works of sir Walter Scott, Volume 1

sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 pages
...made a reproach to the English universities of the converts to the Roman faith daily made within their colleges ; of those sheep, " Whom the grim wolf with...Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal premeanings of the Protestant sects ; every objection was resolved into omnipotence ; and, after repeating...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...laboured 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...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ...

New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 406 pages
...laboured 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...
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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and ..., Volume 2

Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 410 pages
...laboured 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...
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New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent British ..., Volume 4

New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...invoked by mariners in storms. 1 Saint Peter. Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that twohauded engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 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 iso Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and ...

Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...laboured 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...
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Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Oliver Cromwell. By John Forster

Statesmen - 1838 - 380 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." . So great was the influence acquired by Cromwell, in his masterly seizure of such grievances as these,...
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Anglo-India, Social, Moral, and Political: Society and manners

Anglo-Indian literature - 1838 - 430 pages
...impressive, that vehement declamation of the poet on the abuses of the Romish church, 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. " For it does...
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