 | William Harris - 1814 - 546 pages
...songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, Hot swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. MILTOX. This is not merely a poetical exaggeration. Soon after the'se lines were written, a polite... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 560 pages
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw } The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swolu with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. MII.TO>. This is not merely a poetical exaggeration. Soon after these lines were written, a polite... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...impunity and success in the court, i. F the the country, and even the universities. One of the sheep, Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, is Mr. William Chillingworth, Master of Arts, anil Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford ; who, at the... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devonrs apace, and nothing said : Bnt that two handed engine at the door, 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more," Retnrn, Alphens, the dread voice is past, That shrnnk thy streams; retnrn, Sicilian Mnse, And call... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...gongs 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,...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 528 pages
...better, and mast have been actuated by evil passions : " The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly The pastors were changed soon after thii was written, and it would require more than the prejudice... | |
 | REV. H. C. O'DONNOGHUE, A.M. - 1818 - 342 pages
...where, to use the language of one of their own poets-^ " The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, . Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread." , • The General Confession is ordered to be repeated — " all kneeling." When creatures stained... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; IJ The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, - $ But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, » > Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread :__ ac- Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw *rt ^ Daily devours apace, and nothing said : ";... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...son;^ Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; Tin- hungry shuep look up, and arc not fed, makes all the history ; Knough, that Virtue fill'd...being, to have been. When Hopkins dies, a thousand sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 1.10 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are hot fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw,...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,... | |
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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 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... 
