| Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...with impunity and success in the court, i. F the 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, anil Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford ; who, at the... | |
| William Harris - 1814 - 542 pages
...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. MiLfoS. This is not merely a poetical exaggeration. Soon after these lines were written, a polite writer,... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus,... | |
| John Fry - 1822 - 618 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, &c. CHAPTER LVII. 1. THE righteous hath perished ' from off the earth,' But no man considereth : t... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what ; Though what he learns But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus,... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alphens,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 676 pages
...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 smite once, and smite no more. About this time,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 pages
...dashed against each other the figurative half-meanings of the Protestant sects ; every objection was the same side in political questions, and not greatly...privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said.» In approaching Dryden, therefore, a Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal prejudices... | |
| Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 pages
...dashed against each other the figurative h2lf-meanings of the Protestant sects ; every objection was the same side in political questions, and not greatly...privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said.» In approaching Dryden, therefore, a Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal prejudices... | |
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