 | William Harris - 1814 - 542 Seiten
...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. MiLfoS. This is not merely a poetical exaggeration. Soon after these lines were written, a polite writer,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 Seiten
...understandings of CUILIINGWORTH and BAYI.E, who afterwards emerged from superstition to scepticism. While Charles the first governed England, and was...Rome laboured with impunity and success in the court, tiie country, and even the universities. One of the sheep» Whom the grim wolf with privy paw Daily... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 Seiten
...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. Return, Alpheus,... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 618 Seiten
...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, &c. CHAPTER LVII. 1. THE righteous hath perished ' from off the earth,' But no man considereth : t... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...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 smite once, and smite no more. About this time,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what ; Though what he learns But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 Seiten
...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.' Return, Alphens,... | |
 | 1830 - 336 Seiten
...understandings of Chillingworth and Bayle, who afterwards emerged from superstition to scepticism. While Charles the first governed England, and was...universities. One of the sheep, Whom the grim wolf with pritj paw Daily derours apace, and nothing said, is Mr William Chillingworth, Master of Arts, and Fellow... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 Seiten
...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 prejudices... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 Seiten
...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 prejudices... | |
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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,... 
