 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,...  MILLEDULCIA: A THOUSAND PLEASANT THINGS - Page 1931857Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1788
...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
...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
...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 - 1796 - 726 pages
...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 - 1805
...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
...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
...character." It is also to be observed, that towards the end of Charles II.'s reign, the High-Church-men and the Catholics regarded themselves as on the same side...with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said." In approaching Dryden, therefore, a Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal premeanings... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 345 pages
...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 - 55 pages
...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 Alphčus,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 565 pages
...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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