 | Numismatics - 1971 - 1008 pages
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 | American Philological Association - Classical philology - 1909 - 416 pages
...stately progeny of heardsmen " is a paraphrase of Eel. vn, 9-39.* In Milton's Lycidas, 128-129, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, 1 ' EK' says that line 100 " imitateth Mantuanes saying, ' vacuum curis divina cerebrum Poscit.'... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1972 - 368 pages
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 | John Milton - 1972 - 374 pages
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 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...But 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. Even lines... | |
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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... 
