 | William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...Laud. The passage is curious : — " How well could I hare spared for tbee, young swain, Enow of iucu as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold f Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...ftern bejpake, How well could I have tyar'd for thee, young swain, Anow of such as for their beUies sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reck' ring make. Then bow to scramble at the shearers feaft, And shove away the worthy bidden guefl.... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 pages
...occasion foretells the ruin of our corrupted Clergy then in their height'. 'How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain, Enough of such as for their...and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reck'ning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest;... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1994 - 356 pages
...with the benefice than with principles. Although they had never met, John Milton knew him well. Anow of such as for their bellies sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they litde reck'ning make, Than how to scramble to the shearers feast, And shove away the worthy bidden... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...and last did go, The Pilot108 of the Galilean Lake; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain 110 Enow of such as, for their bellies' sake, Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold! Of other care they litde reck'ning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stem bespake: "How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain. Enough of such as for their...and climb into the fold? Of other care they little rcck'ning make. Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast. And shove away the worthy bidden guest;... | |
 | James Hiller, Michael Harrington - 1995 - 1508 pages
..."Dominions Office" — I am sick of it. It puts me in mind of a stanza from Milton, this corrupt practice. Enough of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and...and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckining make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest;... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...false teachers), he had stern words to speak : How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies' sake Creep, and intrude,...shearers' feast And shove away the worthy bidden guest. (113-18, Here, it must be understood, Milton's use of pastoral imagery leans upon another tradition,... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitr'd locks, and stern bespake: "How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain, Enough of such as for their...shearers' feast And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheephook, or have learn'd aught else the least... | |
 | John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg - 1997 - 572 pages
...authorities, and become "lords over the heritage," though not "ensamples to the flock." Now go on: — "Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers!1 feast, Blind mouths — " I pause again, for this is a strange expression; a broken metaphor,... | |
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Enow of such as for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! 
