 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 with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Σελίδα 548των John Milton - 1815Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 σελίδες
...sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs 04. Beaked promontory, ouo projecting like llio beak of a bird. 96. Hippvfadtx, a patronymic noun,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 σελίδες
...That to the faithful 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 pipes of wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed ; But, swoln with wind,... | |
 | Virgil - 1865 - 468 σελίδες
...bad tone, not to spoil a good one. The 'dis' is intensive, as in 'dispcreo.' Milton, Lycidas 123, " And when they list their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw." Dryden (Essay on Satire) refers to this line as showing that Virg.... | |
 | Frances Martin - 1866 - 506 σελίδες
...sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What need they? They are sped; And...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 with wind... | |
 | 1866 - 376 σελίδες
...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 ? They are sped; And when they list their lean and flashy songs no Two] ' In either band she held a massie key, . . . The one of beaten burnish'd gold, .... That in... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 σελίδες
...result that the ending of the denunciation takes the stable form of a passage in ottava rima: What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And...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 with wind, and... | |
 | Marjorie Perloff - 1990 - 384 σελίδες
..."Lycidas": "Of other care they little reck'ning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast. . . . And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their Scannel Pipes of wretched straw." 4. Fait baisser Ic regard dans I'acte d'apprehender. Incrimine I'acquis.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 σελίδες
...A sheephook, or have learn'd ought else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What 0 scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 30 But that two-handed... | |
 | Richard Jenkyns - 1992 - 526 σελίδες
...of detail; for example, where there is indeed harshness in Virgil, Milton pounces upon it (123 f.): And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretehed straw . . . The rasping sounds, as well as the satirical content, arc taken... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 σελίδες
...hold A Sheep-hook, or have learn d ought els the leaft That to thefaithfull Herdmans art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are Sped; And when they lift, their lean andjiashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched sTraw, The hungry Sheep... | |
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