 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
 | Benjamin Hanbury - 1841
...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 ! " " In these... | |
 | John Milton - 1843
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Blanco White - 1845
...accredited Judge, I have found myself inevitably fixed on the other horn of the dilemma. ' 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... | |
 | Joseph Blanco White - 1845 - 501 pages
...accredited Judge, I have found myself inevita- I bly fixed on the other horn of the dilemma. ' 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 255 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." Ye valleys... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845
...swolu 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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 255 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." Ye valleys... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 255 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." Ye valleys... | |
 | 1846
...But fed 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 the two- handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Milton had... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847
...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 smites no more." Here he... | |
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