 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 - Сторінка 3311821Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 стор.
...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 стор.
...of his nature ; but we can scarcely think that in those lines of Lycidas, written in 1637 — " But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more " — he anticipates, as some have maintained, the execution of Archbishop Laud. Matters were scarcely... | |
 | William Maginn - 1855 - 408 стор.
...public are well content with one edition of theirs. It is curious that some difficult lines in Hilton may be explained by this latter circumstance. He says, " That two-handed engine at the door Stands read) - to smite once, and smite no more." The two-handed engine is evidently a printing-press ; (say... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 564 стор.
...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 past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 стор.
...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, as we learn from one of his familiar epistles, he had some thoughts of taking chambers... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - 1856 - 574 стор.
...contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said ; But company Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse. And call... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - 1856 - 478 стор.
...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." When this edifying sermon was ended, " Ave Maria" began. A train of white-robed priests entered, and... | |
 | William Howitt - 1856 - 596 стор.
...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Dayly devours apace, and nothing said ; Bnt that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more." Here he next wrote his treatise, Of Practical Episcopacy, in defense of the Smectymneans,... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 718 стор.
...contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Dally devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more ! ' " As if a strain so stern and polemical had scared away the ordinary pastoral muses, the mourning... | |
 | William Douglas Hamilton - 1859 - 156 стор.
...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 woidd certainly not have experienced mure leniency than his contemporaries Gill or Jonson.... | |
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