 Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!  Cowley, Denham, Milton - Page 473edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1874 - 518 pages
...iron shuts amain). He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : — " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain. Enow of such as, for their...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 136 pages
...swain, Enow of such as, for their bellies' sake, Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold ! 115 Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how...A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1874 - 168 pages
...spoon, as though they had fed them, when they themselves devour the food.' n6, 117] Cf. Becon, Jewel of Than how to scramble at- the shearers' feast, And...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least 120 Joy— 'Our spiritual men are led with no care of feeding Christ's... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 pages
...as though they had fed them, when they themselves devour the food.' 1 16, 117) Cf. Becon, Jewel of Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least 120 Joy — 'Our spiritual men are led with no care of feeding Christ's... | |
 | John Milton - 1875 - 824 pages
...the iron shuts amain,) He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake ; " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as, for their...learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped; And, when they list,... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1875 - 240 pages
...the iron shuts amain) ; He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies'...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? what... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reck'ning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast,...least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped'. (lines H3-21) It is one of the great impassioned... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...their bellies' sake, Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold! Of other care they litde reck'ning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast,...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What... | |
 | Clay Daniel - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 194 pages
...rigorously to restate this problem. The swain meditates the death of the skilled Lycidas amidst hedonistic "blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to...least / That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs" (119-21). As one of these learned in the presence of the sudden, destined, eternal urn, the swain asks,... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...their bellies' sake. Creep and intrude and climb into the fold? Of other care they little rcck'ning make. Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast....themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have leam'd aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What... | |
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