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" 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... "
Young England - Page 19
1883
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 111

1860 - 566 pages
...approaching fate : ' " Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed : But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more;" ' else he would certainly not have experienced more leniency than ' his contemporaries.' while he would...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pages
...spread ; " Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw " Daily devours a pace ; and nothing said, " But that two-handed engine at the door, " Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words of MILTON are certainly severe, but yet not rgy, for a circuit of sixty miles round his...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy pawDaily devours apace : and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." These words of Milton are certainly severe, but not more so than the occasion deserves. If they were...
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: 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 shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call...
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed: 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 shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call...
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Licida, di Giovanni Milton: Mondodia per la morte del naufragato Eduardo King

John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy 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 Alphèus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams ; return Sicilian Muse, And call...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy 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 voice is past, That shrunk thy streams , return, Sicilian Muse, And call...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 8

1821 - 726 pages
...curious that some difficult lines in Milton may be explained by this latter circumstance. lie says, " That two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." The two-handed engine is evidently a . . , printing-press ; (say that of Minerva :) the great Edinburgh...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 8

1821 - 778 pages
...curious that some difficult lines in Milton may be explained by this latter circumstance. He says, " That two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more." The two-handed engine is evidently a printing-press ; (say that of Minerva :) Publishers do actually...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 17

British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed : But that two-handed 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...
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