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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. From the ... - Page vi
by John Milton - 1759 - 416 pages
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The Translation of Memories: Recollections of the Young Proust

P. F. Prestwich, Marie Nordlinger - Composers - 1999 - 280 pages
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Spenser's Faerie Queene: Observations on the Fairy queen of Spenser. pt. 1

Thomas Warton - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 320 pages
...occafionally written SED. This practice was continued as far down as the age of Milton. * B. 2. c. 8. Befides what the grim wolf, with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing SEO. Said is thus printed SED in the edition of 1645, that it might appear to rhyme, with greater propriety,...
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A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...jeremiad against prelarical wolves who abandon pastoral care and misappropriate church wealth: 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. (1l. 128-31)...
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The Black Shore

Joseph O'Neill - 2000 - 272 pages
...The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swol'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. Presumably, O'Neill is substituting "Rot inwardly with privy paw" with "Rot inwardly with privy...
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Seventeenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology

Robert Cummings - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 586 pages
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November: Lincoln's Elegy at Gettysburg

Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...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 door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return...
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Godly and Righteous, Peevish and Perverse: Clergy and Religious in ...

Raymond Chapman - Religion - 2002 - 304 pages
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Genre and Ethics: The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic

Edward Tomarken - Didactic literature, English - 2002 - 292 pages
...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 door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." (1:1794)...
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Renaissance Poetry

Duncan Wu - Literary Collections - 2002 - 189 pages
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British Writers: Retrospective supplement II

Jay Parini - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 600 pages
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