| Charles Stuart Calverley - English poetry - 1866 - 306 pages
...But 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,... | |
| Thomas Hornblower Gill - Papacy - 1866 - 536 pages
...starved sheep of the Anglican fold, neglected by slothful and heedless shepherds, he adds — Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said," 31 These lines clearly indicate the stealthy operations of the Roman Church in England during... | |
| Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...But, 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,... | |
| John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...But 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,... | |
| Dante Alighieri - Poetry - 1867 - 782 pages
...But 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 Sunds ready to smite once, and smite no more." 115. Cowper,... | |
| American Philological Association - Philology - 1909 - 416 pages
...stately progeny of heardsmen " is a paraphrase of Eel. vn, 9-39.* In Milton's Lycidas, 128-129, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, 1 ' EK' says that line 100 " imitateth Mantuanes saying, ' vacuum curis divina cerebrum Poscit.'... | |
| John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...But 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... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...But 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... | |
| James Hiller, Michael Harrington - History - 1995 - 1508 pages
...fed, But 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. That is... | |
| Susan Snyder - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 268 pages
...But 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... | |
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