 | Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 464 pages
...metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain), He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! " The hungry sheep, meanwhile,... | |
 | PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pages
...metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain), He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake: " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!" The hungry sheep, meanwhile,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English literature - 1879 - 470 pages
...shuts amain), He shook his mitred locks, and stern bcspake: " How well could I have spared for thcc, young swain, Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful hcrdman's art belongs !" The hungry sheep, meanwhile,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...his mitred locks, and stern bespake : — " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Anow of such as, for their bellies' sake, Creep, and intrude,...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...their bellies' sake. Creep and intrude and climb into the fold? Of other care they little rcck'ning make. Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast....A sheep-hook, or have leam'd aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped;... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...the Christian Church (and as the biblical denouncer of false teachers), he had stern words to speak : How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...shearers' feast And shove away the worthy bidden guest. (113-18, Here, it must be understood, Milton's use of pastoral imagery leans upon another tradition,... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...shook his mitr'd locks, and stern bespake: "How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain, Enough of such as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude...scarce themselves know how to hold A sheephook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need... | |
 | John N. King - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 262 pages
...churchmen results in the starvation of their flocks for want of spiritual fodder. The speaker attacks such as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude,...shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The... | |
 | Edward Tomarken - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 292 pages
...metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitered locks, and stern bespake; "How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them? What... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...bespake,0 How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies' sake,0 Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other...guest. Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold0 A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least 1 20 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!... | |
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How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden... 
