 | John Fry - 1822 - 618 էջ
...the least 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...; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed ; But, swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what... | |
 | 1822 - 284 էջ
...the least 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...wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are hot fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 էջ
...That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! [sped ; What recks it them ? What need they ? They are And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate...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,... | |
 | 1824 - 456 էջ
...Archbishop Laud, whom he considered as the cause of all tbe schisms then existing in the church — Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. The opinion almost receives confirmation from the fact, that both the poets make a sudden transition... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 էջ
...else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! Whatrecksitthem? what need they ? they are bliss below ; And all our knowledge is, Omelvcs to...RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD СОВНAЛi. Of the Knowledge a swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what... | |
 | 1901 - 744 էջ
...least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs...wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed." MAURICE G. HERING. THE NEW SNOBBISHNESS. IN the WESTMINSTER REVIEW Lady Grove writes on the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 էջ
...occurring in Spenser's Kalendar, Decemb. " What " recked 1 of wintry age's waste." 7*. Warton. 123. And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw;] No sound of words can be more expressive of the sense: and how finely has he imitated, or rather improved,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 էջ
...of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But, swoln with wind, and therank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Dally devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 էջ
...least Tli .' to the faithful hcrdman's an belongs ! 121 Wliat recks it them? What need they? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy...nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 1 30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return, Alphcus, the dread voice is past, That... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 էջ
...the least 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...straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what... | |
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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, 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... 
