 | Peter Bayne - 1879 - 464 pagina’s
...metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain), He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake : " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! " The hungry sheep, meanwhile,... | |
 | PETER BAYNE, M.A., LL.D - 1879 - 564 pagina’s
...metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain), He shook his mitred locks, and stern bespake: " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!" The hungry sheep, meanwhile,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1879 - 470 pagina’s
...shuts amain), He shook his mitred locks, and stern bcspake: " How well could I have spared for thcc, young swain, Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful hcrdman's art belongs !" The hungry sheep, meanwhile,... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pagina’s
...his mitred locks, and stern bespake : — " How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Anow of such as, for their bellies' sake, Creep, and intrude,...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful Herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? What... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pagina’s
...their bellies' sake. Creep and intrude and climb into the fold? Of other care they little rcck'ning make. Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast....A sheep-hook, or have leam'd aught else the least 120 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped;... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pagina’s
...the Christian Church (and as the biblical denouncer of false teachers), he had stern words to speak : How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...shearers' feast And shove away the worthy bidden guest. (113-18, Here, it must be understood, Milton's use of pastoral imagery leans upon another tradition,... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pagina’s
...shook his mitr'd locks, and stern bespake: "How well could I have spar'd for thee, young swain, Enough of such as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude...scarce themselves know how to hold A sheephook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need... | |
 | John N. King - 2000 - 262 pagina’s
...churchmen results in the starvation of their flocks for want of spiritual fodder. The speaker attacks such as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude,...shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The... | |
 | Edward Tomarken - 2002 - 292 pagina’s
...metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). He shook his mitered locks, and stern bespake; "How well could I have spared for thee, young swain,...themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them? What... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pagina’s
...bespake,0 How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such as for their bellies' sake,0 Creep and intrude, and climb into the fold? Of other...guest. Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold0 A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least 1 20 That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!... | |
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How well could I have spared for thee, young swain, Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden... 
