 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 Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 277by John Milton - 1834Full view - About this book
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, sped ; But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw Rot...said : —But that two-handed, engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrank... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Hot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what...nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...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,...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, the dread... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - Classical poetry - 1862 - 220 pages
...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. Post hos, qui Galilasa regit per stagna carinas, Post hos venit iturus: habet manus utraque clavim,... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1862 - 230 pages
...The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Kot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. Post hos, qui Galilsea regit per stagna carinas, Post hos venit iturus : habet manus utraque clavim,... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1863 - 726 pages
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But, awoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Here he next wrote his treatise, Of Practical Episcopacy,... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door, 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus ! the dread voice is past, That... | |
 | 1864 - 520 pages
...receive for the wants and needs of their souls. " The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed." It may be that these High-Church doctors have come nearer than they know to the true interpretation... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1865 - 256 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...LYCIDAS. 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,...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,... | |
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