| James Rush - 1855 - 572 pages
...emphasis. The following line from Milton's Lycidas, is said to be an example of this kind of expression. Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. If the r, here repeated, be roughened by vibration of the tongue, it may be thought to represent vocally... | |
| James Aitken Wylie - 1856 - 498 pages
...of hell. The sermon seemed as if it had been made to answer exactly the poet's description : — " And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate...; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...120 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 Grate...wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up. and are not fad; 125 But, swoin with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
| Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 pages
...? what need they ? they are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs 242 SUMMER JULY. swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; Besides what... | |
| William Howitt - 1857 - 736 pages
...That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them t What need they s They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate...pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and an not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread,;... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them 1 What need they 1 They are sped; An^l, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate...wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up. and are not fed 5 125 But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contusion spread... | |
| 1919 - 1066 pages
...his sermons inspiring. All I know is, some of 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. Holgrave is, as I have said, a very amiable young man, and the theology of his official utterances... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1857 - 522 pages
...mycket vanliga förnamn i Florens på Dantes tid. The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, Bnt swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. V. 109—111. Se Marc. cap. 16 v. 15. "Går ut i hela verldene, och prediker Evangelium allom kreaturom."... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...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 Grate on their scrannel 1 pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them 1 What need they * They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate...wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed; 125 But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:... | |
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