 | Joseph Blanco White - 1845 - 386 pages
...Archbishop. I wish to God we had him permanently in the House of Lords. Well could we spare for him enow of such as, for their bellies' sake, creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold. Palace, Dublin, March 8th, 1834. My dear Lord Holland, 1 write in bed, where I have been these last... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1845 - 456 pages
...love. We are reminded of another passage in this play when we read in the same transcendant elegy, Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast ; where Corin says, And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality. How could... | |
 | 1862 - 802 pages
...were doubtless the men whom Milton intended to describe when bewailing the death of Lycidas : — " Such as, for their bellies' sake, Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold ; * Dr. Vaughan, however, has conclusively shown, that only from eighteen hundred to two thousand were... | |
 | 1846 - 844 pages
...in terms so coarse, as in the following lines, where the river Camus is made to despond thus : — " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...fold. Of other care they little reckoning make, Than hqw to scramble at the shearer's feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest : Blind mouths I that... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...metals twain, The golden opes, the iron abuts amain, He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...and climb into the fold? Of other care they little reikoning make, Than how to scramble, at the shearers' feast. And shove away the worthy bidden guest... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 420 pages
...metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain,) He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake ; " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What... | |
 | George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swaiu, Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep, and...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned ought else the least, That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ; What recks it them ? What... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1849 - 544 pages
...a bad specimen of a prelate. Changeful, grasping, selfish, he was one of those of whom Milton says, "of other care they little reckoning make than how to scramble at the shearer's feast, and shove away the worthy bidden guest." GAULTIER, Abbe Louis, was born in Italy,... | |
 | George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...the iron shuts amain) lie shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain, Enow of such, as for their...feast, And shove away the worthy, bidden guest ; Blind mouth."! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned ought else the least,... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...bespake : How well could I have spared for thee, young Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake [swain, Creep, and intrude, and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning made, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest ! [to hold... | |
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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! that scarce themselves know... 
