 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...  Observations on the Fairy Queen of Spenser - Page 120by Thomas Warton - 1762 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 472 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." 1 1 5.... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Beside 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.' Return,... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Phillips - English poetry - 1868 - 632 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,... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine 7 at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.'... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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