 | Virgil - Pastoral poetry, English - 1820 - 456 pages
...'Jhe very sound i of this verse is worthy of observa; tion. Milton has imitated it in his Lycidas : - Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. 28. Vis ergo, #c.] Damoetas, in order to put a stop to any further reproaches, challenges Menalcas... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, su oln with wind and the rank mist they draw, . Bot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 618 pages
...faithful herdman's art belongs; What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed ; But, swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1901 - 744 pages
...herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed." MAURICE G. HERING. THE NEW SNOBBISHNESS. IN the WESTMINSTER REVIEW Lady Grove writes on the... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...herdsman's art belongs ! [sped ; What recks it them ? What need they ? They are And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw : 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...faithful herdman's art belongs ! Whatrecksitthem? what need they ? they are sped; And when they list, knowledge is, Omelvcs to know. MORAL ESSAYS, IX FOUR...EPISTLES. TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD СОВНAЛi. Of th not fed, But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...recks it them? What need they? They are And, when they 'list, their lean and flashy songs •tírate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But, swoln with wind, and therank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...miserum stipula disperdere carmen ? I remember not to have seen the word scrannel in any other auGrate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...Spenser's Kalendar, Decemb. " What " recked 1 of wintry age's waste." 7*. Warton. 123. And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw;] No sound of words can be more expressive of the sense: and how finely has he imitated, or rather improved,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...hcrdman's an belongs ! 121 Wliat recks it them? What need they? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw ; 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... | |
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And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw... 
