 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,...  The Life of John Dyrden - Page 265by Walter Scott - 1882Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 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 engin at the door, 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Their bells,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...least I can think of no sense so proper to be given to the following verses in Lycidas. 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 smire once, and smice no more. About this... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...with impunity and fuccefs in the court, the country, and even the univerfities. One of the fheep , . Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace , and nothing faid, 5s Mr. WilliarnChillingworth, Mailer of Arts, and, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; who, at... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...laboured with impunity and fuccefs in the court, the country, and even the universities. One of the (beep, Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fa d, is Mr. William Chillingworth, Matter of Arts, and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford ; who, at... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...laboured with impunity and success in the court, the country, and even the universities. One of the sheep^ Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, is Mr. William Chillingworth, Master of Arts, and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; who, at the ripe... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Butswoll'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 dcor, Stands ready to smite once, and smiie no more. Return Alpheus,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 564 pages
...were sufferers in the Plot, both were enemies of the sectaries, both were adherents of the Stuarts. Alternate conversion had been common between them,...Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal premeanings of the Protestant sects; every objection was resolved into omnipotence ; and, after repeating... | |
 | David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...swolfn 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 tlie door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 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. Return Alphčus,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...swoIPn 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/1 Return.... | |
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