...Milton directs this demonizing strategy against prelates, or "Blind Mouths!" whose unfortunate flock are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist...Wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. . . . (125-2.9) The "grim Wolf" here is the Roman Catholic Church, whom Milton renders elsewhere...

...some of these New Age and not-so-new beliefs evokes memories of John Milton's Lycidas: "The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, but swoln with wind...they draw, rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread." Perhaps the current search for meaning is related to the fragile state of the world at present. Whatever...

...hold A sheep-hook, or have learnt aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped:...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,...

...them ? What «a;d tiwy - They are sped ; And when they list, their lean and Mashy songs Grate on iheir scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep...But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, K»t imvarfily, and foul contagion spread ; Beside; what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours...

...corrupt church's unresponsiveness to hungry parishioners and comes from Milton's "Lycidas": The hungry sheep look up and are not fed But swoln with wind,...rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread.29 In the era of Johnson's and Nixon's presidencies, such tales seemed no more feverish than...

...phrase of the poem, 'And were not fed', Causley directs us to Milton's 'Lycidas', and those whose . . . lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes...wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed ... Here 'scrannel' means thin, lean, meagre, and is a perfect word for a cynical government's...

...only ... in the new arrival among us of wise and worthy men" (Essays 2:394). 232.25. scrannel-pipings: "And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw" (Milton, "Lycidas" 123-24). 232.27-28. 'well selected from and burnt': Carlyle refers to his discussion...

...have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs! What recks it them?2 What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel1 pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoll'n with wind,...

...hold A Sheep-hook, or have learn'd ought els the least That to the faithfull Herdsmans art belongs! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped;...inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim Woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing sed, But that two-handed engine at the door,...