 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! 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...  The Harvard Classics - Page 771909Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel2 pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed :3 But that two-handed engine4 at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...need they \ They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel2 pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed :3 But that two-handed engine* at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 344 pages
...Todd. Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door isc Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...enemies, At least I can think of no sense so proper to he given to the following verses in Lycidas— " Besides, what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar epistles, he had some thoughts of taking chambers... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 pages
...What recks it them? What need they ? They ave sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy sou^s Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ;...spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Dayly devours apace, and nothing said ; Bnt that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 736 pages
...and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and an not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they...engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Here he next wrote his treatise, Of Practical Episcopacy, in defence of the Smectymneans,... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...enemies, At 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...door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar epistles, he had some thoughts of taking chambers... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...: i The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw, I Rot Inwardly and foul contagion spread; Besides what...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smjte once and smite no more! ' " As if a strain so stern and polemical had scared away the ordinary... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, sped ; But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw Rot...more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrank thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...; Wha . 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;...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, the dread... | |
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