 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 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." 115. Cowper, Task, II. : — " He that negotiates between God and mant As God's ambassador, the grand... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1871 - 474 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." 1 1 5. Cowper, Task, II. : — " He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 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,...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 436 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 Rot...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed ; But that two-handed engine at the door 13° Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 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,...door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Even lines as violently explicit as these draw power from the tact and balance of the poet : the pastoral... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 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,... | |
 | James Hiller, Michael Harrington - History - 1995 - 1508 pages
...scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. The hungry Sheep (the starving people of this country from 1933-39) look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and...door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. That is the Dominions Office described by Milton in the 17th century, that little back room in some... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 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,...nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk... | |
 | 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...door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. (Lycidas, 128-31) After explaining the 'grim wolf by invoking the parallel of Spenser's similar image... | |
 | Susan Snyder - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 268 pages
...ever-mounting abuses in the present-day church the anguish of time that comes through is delay. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind,...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... | |
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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... 
