 | 1878 - 446 sider
...the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! "What recks it them? What need they? They aro sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs...straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoll'n with wind and the rank mist they draw, Eot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 72 sider
...mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheephook, or have learn'd aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What...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... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 sider
...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 the... | |
 | John Milton - 1879 - 232 sider
...rod ' of Psalm xxiii. 4. 121. Herdsman's. Herdman is the usual spelling in the Bible. Gen. xiii. 7. What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped...wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 125 But, swollen with wind and the rank mist they draw, Hot inwardly, and foul contagion spread;... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 216 sider
...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...; 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 sider
...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...; 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 Broadbent - 1973 - 364 sider
...suggestion or 'projection', rather than statement, as in the famous and terrifying lines of prophecy: Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to...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... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 sider
...with the 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;...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sider
...themselves know how to hold A sheephook, or have learn'd ought else the least That to the faithful herdman's not fed, 30 But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more."... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 sider
...know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have leam'd aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They...straw. 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: Besides what... | |
| |
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... 
