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" 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,... "
New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection ... from the Most Eminent Prose and ... - Page 285
by New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 31-32

John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...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 engin at the door, 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Their bells,...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...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 apace, and nothing said ; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smire once, and smice no more. About this...
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Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...with impunity and fuccefs in the court, the country, and even the univerfities. One of the fheep , . Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace , and nothing faid, 5s Mr. WilliarnChillingworth, Mailer of Arts, and, Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; who, at...
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Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 520 pages
...catholic queen, it cannot be denied that the tniffionaries of Rome laboured with impunity and fuccefs in the court, the country, and even the universities. One of the (beep, Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fa d, is Mr. William Chillingworth,...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 3-4

John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Butswoll'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 engin at the dcor, Stands ready to smite once, and smiie no more. Return Alpheus,...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 564 pages
...English universities of the converts to the Roman faith daily made within their colleges; of those sheep, " Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing said." In approaching Dryden, therefore, a Catholic priest had to combat few of those personal premeanings...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - 1810 - 422 pages
...swolfn 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 tlie door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words...
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Licida, di Giovanni Milton: Mondodia per la morte del naufragato Eduardo King

John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...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. Return Alphèus,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...swoIPn 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/1 Return....
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...understandings of CHILLINGWORTH and BAYLE, who afterwards emerged from superstition to scepticism. While Charles the First governed England, and was...Rome laboured with impunity and success in the court, i. F the the country, and even the universities. One of the sheep, Whom the grim wolf with privy paw...
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