 | 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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...1 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...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...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...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,... | |
 | 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...nothing said. But 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 pages
...they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw : But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly...spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Dally devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite... | |
 | 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...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 shrank... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1861 - 534 pages
...; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Eot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what...nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Hot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what...nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - Classical poetry - 1862 - 220 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,...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. Post hos, qui Galilasa regit per stagna carinas, Post hos venit iturus: habet manus utraque clavim,... | |
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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... 
