 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 - 1826
...understanding' of CHILLINGWORTU and BATLE, who afterwards emerged from superstition to scepticism. ...... Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, Mr. William ChilliDgworth, Master of Art», and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; t io, at the ripe... | |
 | John Milton - 1826
...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, Alpheus,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827
...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827
...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... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827
...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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827
...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... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827
...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... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827
...invoked by mariners in storms. 1 Saint Peter. Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that twohauded engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 323 pages
...Lif'> \ It is also lo 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 prejudices,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832
...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 iso Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,... | |
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