 The hungry sheep look up, and are not 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...  Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets - Sida 89efter William Howitt - 1847Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Phineas Fletcher - 1771 - 180 sidor
...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 - 1779 - 320 sidor
...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,... | |
 | 1781 - 512 sidor
...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 - 1785 - 698 sidor
...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 - 1788 - 628 sidor
...their serannel pipes of wretehed straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 1z5 But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...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, and flourets of... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 - 1794 - 272 sidor
...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 sidor
...enemies.— At 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...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smire once, and smice no more. About this time, as we learn from one of his famlli;ir epistles, he... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 sidor
...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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