 | Goold Brown - 1851 - 1124 pages
...use some forms which a genttenan would be likely to avoid, unless he meant to quote or imitate ; as, "So clomb the first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb." — Milton, PL, B. iv, 1. 192. " He shore his sheep, and, having packed the wool, Sent them unguarded... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 894 pages
...Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, 190 In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 528 pages
...Cross-barred and bolted fast, fear no assault, In at the window elimbs, or o'er the tiles : So elomb the first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings elimb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat... | |
 | John Milton - 1881 - 590 pages
...Cross-barred and bolted fast, fear no assault, In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his. church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 pages
...burgher, whose substantial doors, Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, In at the window ciimbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb the first grand thief...fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a... | |
 | 1882 - 1434 pages
...alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth. /. MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. III. Lino CS2. So clomb the first grand thief into God's fold: So since into his church lewd hirelings climb, u. MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. Line 192. He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 236 pages
...: "Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts !" See also Milton, PL 192 : "So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb." The word (see Wb.) first meant laical as opposed to clerical ; thence, unlearned, ignorant ; thence, mean,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...permissive will, through . heav'n and earth. t. MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. III. Line 682. So clpmb nk & Co. «. MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. IV. Line 192. He wa8 a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 250 pages
...13: "Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts !" See also Milton, PL 192 : "So cloinb this first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb." unlearned, ignorant ; thence, mean, vile ; and at last it got .its present restricted meaning. 91.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 518 pages
...burgher, whose substantial doors, Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb the first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church.lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest... | |
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In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold: Or as a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors... 
