 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
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 380 sidor
...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...privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said." . So great was the influence acquired by Cromwell, in his masterly seizure of such grievances as these,... | |
 | Asiatic journal - 1838 - 1238 sidor
...tirade the more impressive, that vehement declamation of the poet on the abuses of the Romish church, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to mute once and smite no more. " For it does its work," he continued, " quite clean. It picks its suitors... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 sidor
...them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on then- scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 sidor
...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, 125 But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 372 sidor
...their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look on, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1840 - 88 sidor
...motives of action : and to enjoin, 1 . ' r. " Who, when they list, their lean and flashy songs i . Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry...draw, ' Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread." LYCIDAS. May not some of the unamiable ; reproachful ; and degrading traits, in the national character,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 sidor
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 sidor
...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... | |
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