 | American Unitarian Association - 1867 - 532 pages
...faithful herdman's art belongs. What recks it them? What need they ? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed." Let it be remembered, that Milton wrote this. of a period and and of an institution that... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 pages
...faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they ? They are aped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...of wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and ire not fed ; But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; L And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | 1869 - 974 pages
...belongs ! What recks it them P What need they P They are sped; And, when they list, their lean taiA flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Sot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1998 - 414 pages
...devastated: ie white and thinning; maybe, also, a mess. 1201 scrannel pipe: thin, harsh wind instrument; cf. 'their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw': Milton, 'Lycidas', 123—4. 1203-4 wight . . .crow, the archaism 'wight' (person) signals the comic... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...of a passage in ottava rima: What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw, The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...vernacular: Just because there is snow on the roof, It doesn't mean there ain't no fire in the furnace. Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. JOHN MILTON A nice bit of disapproval. Could, possibly, be applied to certain rock groups. Gerard Manley... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped. And when they list ers not fed, 30 But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more."... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are Sped; And when they lift, their lean andjiashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched sTraw, The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed. But sworn with wind, and the rank misJ they draw. Rot inwardly, and foul contagion tyread:... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...speech, firmly indicate such a context. At the same time, bad poets are indicted. 'And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw.' (lines 113-4) Although the revolutionary indictment of the 'corrupted Clergy' is the foregrounded reading,... | |
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And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw... 
