 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 Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Dryden - Stran 273avtor: Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 strani
...swoll'n 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 engin at the door, 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Their bells,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 strani
...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 apace, and nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smire once, and smice no more. About this... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 strani
...laboured with impunity and fuccefs in the court, the country, and even the universities. One of the (beep, Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fa d, is Mr. William Chillingworth, Matter of Arts, and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford ; who, at... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 strani
...with impunity and fuccefs in the court, the country, and even the univerfities. One of the fheep , . Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace , and nothing faid, 5s Mr. WilliarnChillingworth, Mailer of Arts, and, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; who, at... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 strani
...laboured with impunity and success in the court, the country, and even the universities. One of the sheep^ Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, is Mr. William Chillingworth, Master of Arts, and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; who, at the ripe... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 strani
...Butswoll'n 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 engin at the dcor, Stands ready to smite once, and smiie no more. Return Alpheus,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 strani
...of the sectaries, both were adherents of the Stuarts. Alternate conversion had been common between them, so early as since Milton made a reproach to...Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal premeanings of the Protestant sects; every objection was resolved into omnipotence ; and, after repeating... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 strani
...swolfn 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 tlie door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 strani
...swoll'n 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 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return Alphèus,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 strani
...swoIPn 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, 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more/1 Return.... | |
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