 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, Moral, Instructive, and ... - Page 285by Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1874 - 178 pages
...talk vainly.' For the ' rank mist' cf. Song of Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. the Priest of Pan in Fletcher's Faithful Shephcrdest— ' Mists unsound, Damps and vapours fly apace,... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 pages
...vainly. ' For the ' rank mist ' cf. Song of 74 Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. the Priest of Pan in Fletcher's Fai1hful Shepherdess — ' Mists unsound, Damps and vapours fly apace,... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...sand could twist As tough as learned Sorbonist.' and how fast, &c. Cp. Lycidas, 128-9 : ' Beside what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said.' 28. distinct, not = distinguished, but rather clear-headed, definite, decided. Arminius, or Harmensen,... | |
 | American Philological Association - 1909 - 416 pages
...progeny of heardsmen " is a paraphrase of Eel. vn, 9-39.* In Milton's Lycidas, 128-129, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, 1 ' EK' says that line 100 " imitateth Mantuanes saying, ' vacuum curis divina cerebrum Poscit.' "... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 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. Even lines as... | |
 | Ray B. Browne - 1992 - 218 pages
...public in the same condition as John Milton's sheep in Lycidas that "look up, and are not fed," because "the grim wolf with privy paw/ Daily devours apace, and nothing said?" One can only marvel at such oxymoronic desires in people. We call the virginal the untouched—our... | |
 | James Hiller, Michael Harrington - 1995 - 1508 pages
...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 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. That is the Dominions... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...swol'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 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus,... | |
 | Susan Snyder - 1998 - 268 pages
...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. (125-29) How long must it go on before something is said, before the "corrupted clergy ... in their... | |
 | Joseph O'Neill - 2000 - 272 pages
...hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swol'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. Presumably, O'Neill is substituting "Rot inwardly with privy paw" with "Rot inwardly with privy maw"... | |
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