 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 páginas
...worthy bidden guest. Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's...; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate-on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry sheep look up and arc not fed, But, swollen... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1876 - 599 páginas
...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...; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace,... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - 1876 - 420 páginas
...people be passively obedient, while they lost their cherished liberties. Of such pastors Milton wrote, " Blind mouths that scarce themselves know how to hold...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 ; Besida what... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 618 páginas
...shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest ; Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know howto hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the...; 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 : Besides what... | |
 | William Howitt - 1877 - 732 páginas
...bidden guest ; Blind mouth* I that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's...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,'; Besides what... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 páginas
...bidden guest ; Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's...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 : Besides what... | |
 | John Milton - 1877 - 48 páginas
...flock. Cf. Our Lord's command to Peter, ' Feed my lambs, ' ' Feed my sheep. ' — St. |ohn xxi. 15, 16. That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What...wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, 125 But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Code poetical reader - 1877 - 168 páginas
...Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold 1 20 A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aiight * else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art...Grate on their scrannel * pipes of wretched straw; 1 25 The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swollen with wind and the rank * mist they draw,*... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 332 páginas
...know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they?...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 : Besides what... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 páginas
...sheep-hook, or have learn'd ought els the least 120 That to the faithfull herdsmans art belongs ! What reeks it them ? What need they ? they are sped ; And when...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;... | |
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That to the 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 pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln... 
