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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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A household book of English poetry, selected with notes by R.C. Trench

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart: Life of Dryden

Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 pages
...smaU For who would break with heaven, and would not break for til F'" O»ROH'S Memoiri of hit mm Lift. them, so early as since Milton made a reproach to...with 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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Class-book of Science and Literature

Class-book - 1869 - 344 pages
...swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine 7 at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return,...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1869 - 974 pages
...swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Bot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace, and nothing said : 1 19. Untaught instructors ; manage. 120. Acquired other endowment. 121. Dutiful shepherd's business....
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The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. Carpenter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...an4the rank mist they draw, Lycidas. 125 Rot inwardly, and feral 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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Favourite English poems and poets

English poems - 1870 - 722 pages
...swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Beside 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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A Household Book of English Poetry, Issue 160

1870 - 464 pages
...swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door 130, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...
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The Divine Comedy, Volume 3

Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 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." 115. Cowper,...
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Milton's Samson agonistes and Lycidas, with notes etc., by J. Hunter, Volume 45

John Milton - 1870 - 116 pages
...meagre, pipes. 115. And climb into the fold.] Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Beside 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.' Eeturn, Alphelia,...
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Poems [a selection] ed. with life and notes by J.M. Ross

John Milton - 1871 - 312 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 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...
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