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" What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly... "
The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 143
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...But, swoll'n 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 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...
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New elegant extracts; a selection from the most eminent British ..., Volume 4

New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...commonly invoked by mariners in storms. 1 Saint Peter. Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that twohauded engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...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 iso Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return,...
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Lives of Eminent British Statesmen ...: Oliver Cromwell. By John Forster

1838 - 380 pages
...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." . So great was the influence acquired by Cromwell, in his masterly seizure of such grievances...
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Anglo-India, social, moral and political; a collection of papers from the ...

Asiatic journal - 1838 - 1238 pages
...more impressive, that vehement declamation of the poet on the abuses of the Romish church, 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 mute once and smite no more. " For it...
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Anglo-India, Social, Moral, and Political: Society and manners

1838 - 430 pages
...more impressive, that vehement declamation of the poet on the abuses of the Romish church, 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. " For it...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...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 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. "5...
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Historical Memorials Relating to the Independents Or Congregationalists ...

Benjamin Hanbury - 1841 - 628 pages
...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 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more ! " " In...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...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 fed : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides r, Will dare to soil her virgin purity : Yea there, where very Des sed : But that two-handed engine at the door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...
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