 | William Harris - 1814 - Počet stránok 546
...songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, Hot swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. MILTOX. This is not merely a poetical exaggeration. Soon after the'se lines were written, a polite... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - Počet stránok 560
...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw } The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swolu with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. MII.TO>. This is not merely a poetical exaggeration. Soon after these lines were written, a polite... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - Počet stránok 490
...gongs 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,...nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - Počet stránok 832
...son;^ Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; Tin- hungry shuep look up, and arc not fed, makes all the history ; Knough, that Virtue fill'd...being, to have been. When Hopkins dies, a thousand sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 1.10 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,... | |
 | 1822 - Počet stránok 284
...flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are hot fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw,...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,... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - Počet stránok 618
...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed ; But, swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, &c. CHAPTER LVII. 1. THE righteous hath perished ' from off the earth,' But no man considereth : t... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - Počet stránok 460
...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,...nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alphens, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - Počet stránok 1062
...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoll'n ters of Mes. Yes, you despise the man to books confin'd,...his study rails at human kind; Though what he learns Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - Počet stránok 414
...their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw thor, nor can I find it in any dictionary or glossary that I have consulted ; but I presume it answers... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - Počet stránok 646
...enemies. At 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...nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar... | |
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That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! 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... 
