 | Benjamin Hanbury - Congregationalism - 1841 - 634 pages
...The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, Hut, swolu with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Ilot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what...nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more ! " " In these lines," says Dr. Thomas Warton, " our... | |
 | James Heywood Markland - 1842 - 186 pages
...for the countless multitudes, " the hungry sheep," who, in that vast city, -look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread 1. To this eminent example of Episcopal zeal, watchfulness, and activity, let us not lose the satisfaction... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, forth a sleepy horror through the blood ; And where...and scarcely heard, to flow. A pleasing land of dro sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1844 - 606 pages
...names of men at Florence. 2 The sheep.] So Milton, Lycidas. The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly. 3 Gave them truth.] u Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." Mark, xvi.... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...Grate 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,...spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Dally devours apace, and nothmg said.s' (1 19-29) The violence of this indictment is signalled by 'Blind... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...autograph's crucial contexts, "Lycidas" 125-27 (italics added): The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spred. Littleton's 1760 Dialogues of the Dead similarly links contagion of satire to the rank draft... | |
 | Marcus Walsh - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 244 pages
...Paradise Lost, but in his lengthy note on the most famous and contested interpretative crux 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. (Lycidas, 128-31) After explaining the 'grim wolf by... | |
 | Susan Snyder - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 268 pages
...church the anguish of time that comes through is delay. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. (125-29) How long must it go on before something is said, before the "corrupted clergy ... in their... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and little said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more."... | |
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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... 
