 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...herdman's art belongs ! I2I What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped; And, when they list, while not fed. But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...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, sivoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...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 swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, " Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...herdman's art belongs ; What recks it them ? What need they ? They tin- s| <;il ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, MI LTON. But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...recks it them ? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grato on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw: The hungry sheep look up, and arc not fod ; 125 But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 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, But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | James Rush - Elocution - 1855 - 572 pages
...emphasis. The following line from Milton's Lycidas, is said to be an example of this kind of expression. Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. If the r, here repeated, be roughened by vibration of the tongue, it may be thought to represent vocally... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1855 - 474 pages
...graven work 60 Of the divine Alcimedon, whereon, Line 36. See Milton's Lycidas : " And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw." 45. Spenser has imitated this passage : Sh. Cal. March, 40 : " For, alas ! at home I have a syre, A... | |
 | James Aitken Wylie - 1856 - 498 pages
...seemed as if it had been made to answer exactly the poet's description : — " 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, swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...faithful 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 fad; 125 But, swoin 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... 
