 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814
...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
...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
...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
...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 - 822 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
...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
...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
...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 - 277 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
...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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