 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 and the rank mist they draw Rot inwardly,...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 466by John Milton - 1857 - 570 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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, 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,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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, Rot inwardly,...Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alphens, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 646 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...door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar epistles, he had some thoughts of taking chambers... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1825 - 398 pages
...unless we live in the spirit of the Gospel. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist .they draw, Rot inwardly,...door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words of Milton are certainly severe, but yet not more so than the occasion deserves. If they... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door iso Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...and flashy songt Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and arc not fed, But, swollen with wind and the rank mist...devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed enginet at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice... | |
 | Anglo-Indian literature - 1838 - 430 pages
...tirade the more impressive, that vehement declamation of the poet on the abuses of the Romish church, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more. " For it does its work," he continued, " quite clean. It picks its suitors to the bone. The law, whether... | |
 | Statesmen - 1838 - 380 pages
...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, Rot inwardly,...privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said." . So great was the influence acquired by Cromwell, in his masterly seizure of such grievances as these,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. "5 elimb] "Crept into the fold.' Prose Works, ii.... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look on, and are not fed, But, swoln 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,... | |
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