...their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, sped ; But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw Rot inwardly,...said : —But that two-handed, engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrank...

...become idolaters at Jerusalem, and the sheep without a shepherd -" Look up and are not fed, But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread," the spirit of God comes newly down on some carpenter's son at Nazareth, whose lightning terrifies the...

...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.' " The difference between the stern strength, the vehement and even harsh earnestness of these lines,...

...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,...paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. Return, Alpheus, the dread...

...on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. Post hos, qui Galilasa regit per stagna carinas, Post hos venit iturus: habet manus utraque clavim,...

...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: Besides what...with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. Post hos, qui Galilsea regit per stagna carinas, Post hos venit iturus : habet manus utraque clavim,...

...passed in 1689, amounted to a formal renunciation of the claim of the State — on account of which * " Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said." so much blood had been shed in this and the previous century — to impose religious uniformity upon...

...wind that inflates and sickens their listeners: '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.' (lines 115-7) 'L'Allegro' and 'II Penseroso' of all the poems in the 1645 volume are the closest to...

...thought often of the moving lines from John Milton: The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swol'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... A great poem about a shepherd. Feed my lambs, feed my sheep, John Sleaford told himself. I know my...

...Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swol'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw. Rot inwardly,...door 130 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Retum Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; retum Sicilian Muse. And call...