 | John Tulloch - Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691 - 1861 - 536 pages
...shearers' feast, .And shove away the worthy bidden guest. And, when they list, their lean and flashy songn 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, and foul contagion spread.'... | |
 | 1861 - 790 pages
...opera bats, and lorgnettes. They did their best, like Milton's devils, to make a hiss applausive, and " their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched etraw." The landlords, however, were not content with establishing evil to the poor prospectively,... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1862 - 230 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, Kot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...herdsman's art beiongs ; Wha . 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it themt What need they? They are s;ed; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed; 125 But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread:... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 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 swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Christian life - 1864 - 704 pages
...takes place which Milton describes in " Lycidas : " " And when they list, their lean and flashy aongs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look np, and are not fed." Serious persons go off elsewhere ; infidels are confirmed in infidelity ; and... | |
 | Charles Stuart Calverley - 1865 - 216 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 fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1865 - 256 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 swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them * What need they ? They are sj.ed ; 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 drs w, 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... 
