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" 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 Selected from "Notes and Queries" - Page 193
by Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 416 pages
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Historical Memorials Relating to the Independents Or ..., Volume 2

Benjamin Hanbury - 1841 - 632 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 ! " " In these...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1843 - 364 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,...
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The life of the rev. Joseph Blanco White, written by himself. Ed ..., Volume 1

Joseph Blanco White - 1845 - 538 pages
...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...
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The Life of the Rev. Joseph Blanco White: Written by Himself; with ..., Volume 1

Joseph Blanco White - 1845 - 538 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...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 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...
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Imagination and fancy; or Selections from the English poets, with critical ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...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,...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 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...
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Imagination and Fancy: Or, Selections from the English Poets, Illustrative ...

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 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...
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The Ecclesiastic [afterw.] The Theologian and ecclesiastic ..., Volumes 1-2

1846 - 844 pages
...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...
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Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Volume 1

William Howitt - 1847 - 524 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 smites no more." Here he...
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