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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... "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 143
edited by - 1779
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The first (-sixth) part of Miscellany poems, publ. by Mr. Dryden, Part 1

Miscellany poems - 1716 - 426 pages
...on their fcrannel Pipes of wretched ftraw, The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But fwolnwith wind, and the rank mift they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread : Befides what the grim Woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed. But that two-handed...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - English poetry - 1750 - 674 pages
...enemies. 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...nothing faid ; But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, Volume 1

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,...nothing faid -, But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to finite once, and fmite no more. About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar...
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A Letter Concerning a New Edition of Spenser's Faerie Queene. To Gilbert ...

John Upton - 1751 - 54 pages
...a very difficult pafTage in Milton's Lycidas, The hungry (beep look up, and are not fed, 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...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ...

John Milton - 1753 - 374 pages
...fongs Grate on their fcrannel pipes of wretched ftraw ; The hungry fheep look up, and are not fed, 123 But fwoll'n with wind, and the rank mift they draw....contagion fpread i Befides what the grim wolf with privy pav? Pally devours apace, and nothing faid, But that two-handed engin at the door 130 Stands ready...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1753 - 418 pages
...3rate on their fcrannel pipes of wretched ftraw ; The hungry flieeplook up, and are not fed, izj 3ut fwoll'n with wind, and the rank mift they draw, R.ot inwardly, and foul contagion fpread : Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Da'ly Yes bat they gang in more fecret wife, And with fheeps...
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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time ..., Volume 2

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...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ...

John Milton - 1759 - 414 pages
...fed; 125 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...that two-handed engin at the door 130 Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. Return Alpheus, the dread voice is paft, That fhrunk thy ftreams; return...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. From the ...

John Milton - Epic poetry, English - 1759 - 608 pages
...enemies. 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...nothing faid ; But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar...
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson ...

John Milton - English poetry - 1759 - 420 pages
...on their fcrannel pipes ofwretched ftraw; The hungry fheep look up, and are not fed; 125 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...
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