 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...That to the faithful herdman's art bejongs 1 What recks it them ? What need they ? They arc 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 with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...that scarce themselves know how t» hold 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 with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! 121 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 j The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, liuf , swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 796 pages
...mean idea Comatcs had of the shepherd's piping. — Milton ; ad butli Theocritus and Virgil in view. Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. Lycidas. 9. Uamo-'las dono mihi quam dedit olim. Eel. 2. 37. 12. Thy master sleeps] The ancients used... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 540 pages
...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 vp and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly,... | |
 | John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...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 swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...herdinan's art belongs! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, tbtir lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, l~But, swoIPn with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 542 pages
...That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks rt 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 with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot... | |
 | Virgil - Pastoral poetry, English - 1820 - 456 pages
...'Jhe very sound i of this verse is worthy of observa; tion. Milton has imitated it in his Lycidas : - Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. 28. Vis ergo, #c.] Damoetas, in order to put a stop to any further reproaches, challenges Menalcas... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 618 pages
...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 Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed ; But, swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw,... | |
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And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw... 
