 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...reck'ning make, Than how to seramble at the shearer's feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest ; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd ought else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? what... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 1803 - 446 pages
...reck'ning make, " Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast, " And shove away the worthy bidden guestj " Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold " A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least " That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! " What recks it them ?... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 pages
...reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast, And shove away the worthy-bidden guest : Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! 3 BC page 107. 4 Oixia Ss... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art bejongs 1 What recks it them ? What... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest ; Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! 121 What recks it them? What... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy-bidden guest ; Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! i , .' Bid amaranthus all... | |
 | 1811 - 566 pages
...reck'ning make', Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest j Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd ought else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! 'What recks it them,' &c.... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 540 pages
...Book: 8. rians disavow and repudiate them,) we have no reluctance to declare our intolerable disgust. Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned ought else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks it them ? what need they... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...reckoning make, Thau how to scramble at the shearers'1 feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn 'd augbt else the least 12* That to the faithful herdinan's art belongs! What recks it them ?... | |
 | William Harris - 1814 - 542 pages
...account of their Than how to scramble at the shearers feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learn'd ought else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! What recks rt them ? what... | |
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That to the faithful 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 pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed... 
