 | Church and the world - 1853 - 656 pages
...sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot invv.mlly. and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim...paw Daily devours apace : and nothing said, But that twi -handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." In the commencement... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, MI LTON. But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...songs Grato on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw: The hungry sheep look up, and arc not fod ; 125 But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sod : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | 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...nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swollen C 1 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - 1856 - 478 pages
...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace, and nothing sed ; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." When this... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...their scrannel pipes of wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up. and are not fad; 125 But, swoin with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: But that two-handed engine at the door I'M Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. ^efRetum,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1856 - 596 pages
...flashy sou^s 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,...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 426 pages
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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 with wind... 
