 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 wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door...  Selections from the British Poets - Halaman 101diedit oleh - 1840Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 438 halaman
...enemies of English liberty are aware of this weakness in the public mind, and make a notable use of it. " But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more." Give a dog an ill name, and hang him — so says the proverb. The courtiers say, " Give a patriot an... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1826 - 488 halaman
...and asserted ten years ago, " that the most accomplished prince in Europe was an Adonis of fifty !" " Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse!" I look out of my window and see that a shower has just fallen : the fields look green after it, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 538 halaman
...There 'making tedious preachments of no edifying powre." T. WARTON. Ver. 130. But that tivo-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no 'more.] In these lines our author anticipates the execution of archbishop Laud by a two-handed engine, that... | |
 | 1821 - 768 halaman
...of it, in one instance, and by a mere amendment of we act of parliament : — and nothing said, Bot that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smile no more. Tot. xvi. F — dom amongst all classes of their countrymen. A. GLEANINGS ; OR, SELECTIONS... | |
 | John Milton - 1827 - 518 halaman
...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...engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smile no more." Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 halaman
...Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that twohauded engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and...smite no more.' Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass'd That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian .Muse. And call the vales, and bid them hither cast... | |
 | Abraham Thompson Lowe - 1829 - 372 halaman
...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devoura apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more. Iletuni, Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian... | |
 | 1831 - 558 halaman
...what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said : But that two-handed enginct at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite...the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flow'rets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1831 - 418 halaman
...wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed : But that two-handed engine at the door I30 Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." Return,...streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and hid them hither cast Their hells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1831 - 438 halaman
...ironical satire, of which it certainly, as wielded by him, could not be said, " That two-handed weapon at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." It was, indeed, two-edged, as well as two-handed, and speedily brought De Foe into the same situation... | |
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