 | Phineas Fletcher - Fishing - 1771 - 180 pages
...thin plank keeps in thy vital breath : Death ready waits. Fond boyes, to play with death I JfeGdes what the grim wolf, with privy paw,, Daily devours apace, and nothing faid, But that two.handed engine at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and finite no more. MILTON's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 890 pages
...fed, 125 But fwoll'n with wind, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread i Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace; and nothing faid, But that two-handed engin at the door, 130 Stands ready to finite once, and finite no more. Return,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...But fwoll'n with wind, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread i BeIidcs what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace ; and nothing faid, But that two-handed engin at the door, ijO Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. Return,... | |
 | English poetry - 1781 - 512 pages
...But, fwoll'n with wind, and the rank mift they draw, • Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread : • Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw • Daily devours apace, and nothing faid; • But that two-handed engine at the door ' Stands ready tofmite once, and fmite no more.' Return... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...fed, 125 But fwoln with wind, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread : Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed : 128. Bejides what tbe grim vitlf, &c.] It has been conjectured, that Milton in this paflage has... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 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 engin at the door, 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Their... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...fed, iz5 But fwoll'n with wind, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly, and foal contagion fpread : Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace; and nothing faid, Sat that two-handed engin at the door 130 Slands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. Return,... | |
 | John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...25 " But fwoln with wind, and the rank mift they draw, " Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread : " Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw " Daily devours apace, and nothing fed : htrtlman (not herd/man) has a general fenfe in our old writers ; and, as Mr. Bowie remarks, often... | |
 | James Roach - English poetry - 1794 - 272 pages
...not fed, But fwoln wich wired, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread : Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid, But But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmites no more. Return,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...fed, But fwoll'n with wind, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fprcad ; Befides what the grim wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace ; and nothing laid, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to fmite once, and i'mite no more. ' Return,... | |
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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... 
