 | Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...utter a jeremiad against prelarical wolves who abandon pastoral care and misappropriate church wealth: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. (1l. 128-31) A headnote added to the 1645 edition guided revolutionary readers to discover a prophecy... | |
 | Kent Gramm - History - 2001 - 350 pages
...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,...door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk they streams; Return Sicilian Muse, And call the... | |
 | Samuel J. Rogal - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 186 pages
...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,...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: 70 (Lyc idas [1637], 11s. 119-127) Thus, in response to a clear and obvious calling, Wesley set out... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...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,...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: joo 105 IIO "5 120 125 96. Hippotades is Aeolus, son of Hippotas, and sage perhaps because he was the... | |
 | Denise Gigante - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 264 pages
...Milton directs this demonizing strategy against prelates, or "Blind Mouths!" whose unfortunate flock are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. . . . (125-2.9) The "grim Wolf" here is the Roman Catholic Church, whom Milton renders elsewhere as... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 66 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 the... | |
 | John Milton - Fiction - 2006 - 94 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 the... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 102 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,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus;... | |
 | Robert Tudur Jones, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - Religion - 2006 - 448 pages
...Grate on their scrannel1 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...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said:5 But that the two-handed engine6 at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.... | |
 | Denis Donoghue - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2008 - 207 pages
...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,...inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim Woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed, But that two-handed engine at the door,... | |
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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... 
