 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
 | John Milton - 1871
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1871
...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 Ruskin - 1871
...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.' " Let us think over this passage, and examine its words. First, is it not singular to find Milton assigning... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 608 pages
...swollen 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 Milton - 1871
...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,... | |
 | Asahel Clark Kendrick - 1871 - 449 pages
...swollen 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,... | |
 | Roy Daniells - 1973 - 343 pages
...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. Even lines as... | |
 | Ray B. Browne - 1992 - 210 pages
...public in the same condition as John Milton's sheep in Lycidas that "look up, and are not fed," because "the grim wolf with privy paw/ Daily devours apace, and nothing said?" One can only marvel at such oxymoronic desires in people. We call the virginal the untouched—our... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 891 pages
...swol'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 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus,... | |
 | Susan Snyder - 1998 - 241 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. (125-29) How long must it go on before something is said, before the "corrupted clergy ... in their... | |
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