 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
 | John Milton - 1750 - 666 pages
...At leaft I can think of no fenfe fo proper to be given to the following verfes in Lycidas, Bcfides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid -, But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to finite once, and fmite no more. About... | |
 | John Milton - 1750 - 674 pages
...At leaft I can think of no fenfe fo proper to be given to the following verfes in Lycidas, Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid ; But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. About this... | |
 | John Upton - 1751 - 54 pages
...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, . . • *, '. But that two-handed engine at the door . . Stands ready to. fmite once, and fmite... | |
 | Robert Shiells - 1753 - 366 pages
...Newton, I can think of no fe.nfe fo proper to be given to the following verfes in Lycidas i Fcfulcs what the grim wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace, and nothing laid ; But that two-handed engine at die door, Stands ready to finite once, and f'mite no more. Upon... | |
 | John Milton - 1759 - 608 pages
...At leaft 1 can think of no fenfe fo proper to be given to the following verfes in Lycidas. Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid ; But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. About this... | |
 | John Milton - 1759 - 420 pages
...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 faid, But that two-handed engin at the door 130 Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. Return... | |
 | William Harris - 1762 - 564 pages
...But fwoln with wind, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread : Betides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid. MILTON. This is not meerly a poetical exaggeration. Soon after thefe lines were written, a polite... | |
 | William Harris - 1762 - 544 pages
...But fwoln with wind, and the rank miir. they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread ; Befldes what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid. MILTON. This is not meerly a poetical exaggeration. Soon after thefe lines were written, a polite... | |
 | John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...At leaft I can think of no fenfe fo proper to be given to the following verfes in Lycidas. Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faidj But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. About this... | |
 | Phineas Fletcher - 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... | |
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