 | 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...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 away the ordinary... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...songs Grate 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,...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,... | |
 | 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...door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrank thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call... | |
 | John Tulloch - Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 - 1861 - 536 pages
...away the worthy bidden guest. And, when they list, their lean and flashy songn Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.' " The difference between the stern strength, the vehement and even harsh earnestness of these lines,... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...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,...door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1863 - 726 pages
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But, awoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Here he next wrote his treatise, Of Practical Episcopacy, in defence of the Smectymneans,... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 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,...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... | |
 | 1864 - 520 pages
...receive for the wants and needs of their souls. " 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." It may be that these High-Church doctors have come nearer than they know to the true interpretation... | |
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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... 
