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... Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 3311821Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1860 - 566 pages
...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 - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...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 - Apologetics - 1809 - 410 pages
...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 - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...contagion spread : 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." Return, Alpheus ! the dread voice is pass'd, That shrunk thy streams : return, Sicilian Muse ! And... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...works. His head was full of these thoughts, and he was in Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. 130 expectation of some mighty alteration in religion, as appears from the earliest of his prose works,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf, with privy paw, Daily devours apace; and nothing said, But his verse to future age pretend Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend ? That Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the... | |
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