 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...  The Odoherty Papers - Side 148av William Maginn - 1855Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1860 - 566 sider
...approaching fate : ' " Besides what the grim 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;" ' else he would certainly not have experienced more leniency than ' his contemporaries.' while he would... | |
 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 sider
...spread ; " Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw " Daily devours a pace ; and nothing said, " But that two-handed engine at the door, " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words of MILTON are certainly severe, but yet not rgy, for a circuit of sixty miles round his... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 sider
...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy pawDaily devours apace : and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words of Milton are certainly severe, but not more so than the occasion deserves. If they were... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 sider
...contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: 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 thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 sider
...contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: 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 thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 sider
...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 Alphèus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return Sicilian Muse, And call... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 sider
...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, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams , return, Sicilian Muse, And call... | |
 | 1821 - 778 sider
...difference between the writings of the Scotch Novelist, and those of Miss Haynes, MissStanhope, Anneof Swansea, and Mr Francis Lathom, that his run through...Minerva :) Publishers do actually talk of striking offan impression ; and every one knows, that to strike and to smite are synonymous, and the words once... | |
 | 1821 - 726 sider
...It is curious that some difficult lines in Milton may be explained by this latter circumstance. lie says, " That two-handed engine at the door Stands...evidently a . . , printing-press ; (say that of Minerva :) the great Edinburgh North of the prePublishers do actually talk of striking sent day. Now this hankering... | |
 | 1821 - 720 sider
...be explained by this latter circumstance. !ie says, '• That two-banded engine at the door .Sands ready to smite once, and smite no more." The two-handed engine is evidently a but his name and features we knew not ; all that we were permitted to discern was, that he was sensible... | |
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