 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...herdman's art belongs! " What recks it them? What need they ? They are sped; " And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs " Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw; " 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;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...herdman's art belongs ! » "What recks it them? What need they ? They are sped; " And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs " Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw; " The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, " But swolu with wind and the rank mist they draw, " Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...herdman's art belongs'. " What recks it them? What need they ? They are sped; " And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs " Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw; " 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;... | |
 | 1862 - 802 pages
...faithful herdsman's art belongs. What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...of wretched straw. 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."... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...herdman's art belongs! " What recks it then ? What need they ? They are sped; " And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs " Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw; " 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;... | |
 | 1846 - 844 pages
...herdsman's art belong ! What recks it them ? What need they ? They are sped ; And, when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But fed with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread : Besides... | |
 | 1846 - 906 pages
...which to judicious people is just one degree less offensive than the bringing the stage into it : — Their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel...wretched straw : The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...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 with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread... | |
 | Virgil, Thomas Keightley - 1847 - 524 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1849 - 538 pages
...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... | |
| |
And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw... 
