...KaXdjuas av\bv TTOTnrv&Eev t'^ojri ; Theoc. v. 5. more than blow a corn-pipe at the cross-roads ? " And when they list their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw," is Milton's imitation of this passage, Lycidas 123. — 26. trimis. The trivium, different from the...

...we may continue our quotation as most applicable to the condition of the sheep : — " But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion tpread." The Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in their report of 1845, admit this fact by deeply regretting...

...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 Orate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln...

...abandoned the earth. Small tinklers there have been on feeble harps, laborious metremongers, who with Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, making idiots dance to their dreary music; but of heart-stirring, soulelevating poets, none! The loftiest...

...Warwickshire, and has been described as " the fellest of all ovine diseases." When Milton wrote( The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and I he rank mist they draw, Hot inwardly, and foul contagion spread, the life-history of liver-fluke,...

...least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! [sped; What recks it them? What need they? They are And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate...But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Wrought inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...

...the gospel to every creature." Mark, xvi. 15. * The preacher?] Thus Cowper, Task, b. ii. The hungry sheep look up and are not fed,. But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly. To court a grin, when you should woo a soul, &c. 'Tis pitiful Fattens with this his swine.] On the...

...449.) — " One of the sheep, '' &c. JE hag misquoted from Milton's Lycidot. It reads: — " The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Hot inwardly and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace,...

...ought else the least, That to the faithful herdman's art belongs; What recks it them 1 What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scraanel pipes of wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, l! But, swoln wi.Ii wind,...

...That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! " What recks it them? What need they ? They a' • ^ /; " And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs "...fed ; " But swoln with wind and the rank mist they drav " Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread ; " Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw " Daily...