 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! [sped ; What recks it them? What need they? They are And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate...; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swolnwith wind and the rank mist they draw, * One of the Nereides, who wa» commonly invoked by mariners... | |
 | 1827 - 602 pages
...his usefulness as a want of fidelity ; and though the source of the evil be different, while they ' their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up and are not fed.' We would by no means insinuate that this want of simplicity is always the result of intellectual... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...Carea. Flashy via cannot fathom the whole extent of a. Urge discourse. Digby on the Sovi, Dedication. When they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. UiUon. The proper objects of common mirth and sportful divertisement are mean and petty matters ; any... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - Trinity - 1831 - 198 pages
...chant out the same eternal sing-song of election, reprobation, satisfaction, and the Three-in-one ; " And when they list their lean and flashy songs, Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched etraw. We can fancy that we see the great poet sitting in a certain meeting-honse, listening to one... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...K 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 said ; But that two-handed engine at the door iso Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,... | |
 | William Toone - English language - 1832 - 532 pages
...quoted for its use: the Danish skranten, weak, sickly, or feeble, seems to give its definition. They when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. MILTON'S LTCIDAS. SCRIMER (F. escrimeur), a fencing master, an adept in that art. The scrimers of their... | |
 | Frances Milton Trollope - United States - 1833 - 422 pages
...sheep-hook, or bave learned augbt else , the Icast That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! — But when they list their lean and flashy songs , Grate...hungry sheep look up, and are not fed ! But swoln withjwind , and the rank mist they draw , Rot'inwardly — and foui contagion spread ' ». Le pen était... | |
 | Frances Milton Trollope - United States - 1833 - 370 pages
...else , thé least That to thé faithful herdsman's art belongs ! — But when they list their luân and flashy songs , Grate on their scrannel pipes of...hungry sheep look up , and are not. fed ! But swoln withjjwind , and thé rank nsist they draw, Rotnnwardjy — and foui contagion spread ' ». Le pen... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 135 But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door iso Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. "5... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! 121 What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs...wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
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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... 
