 | Herbert Spencer - Literary style - 1872 - 70 pages
...prerequisite to easy comprehension, and therefore to effect. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at evo 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, whoso substantial doors, Oross-barr'd,... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown - Authorship - 1921 - 386 pages
...is a further prerequisite to easy comprehension, and therefore to effect. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching...secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold; Or as a thief, bent to unheard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors, Cross-barred,... | |
 | David Ansell Slater - 1922 - 36 pages
...Tantalos-stone that hung above our heads, a curse intolerable to Hellas.' — Ernest Myers. 3P.L., iv, 183 ff. 'Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey Watching...flocks at eve, In hurdled cotes amid the field secure ' . . . Yes, but whereas Milton's wolf ' Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold,' in Vergil1... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 pages
...overleaped all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching...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, Cross-barred... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1924 - 472 pages
...overleaped all bound Of hill or highest walL_and sheer within Lights on his feet. ^As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching...their flocks at eve, In hurdled cotes amid the field secnre, , . Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold; Or as a thief, bent to unhoard the cash '... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1925 - 450 pages
...overleap'd all bound Of Hill or highest Wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling Wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where Shepherds pen thir Flocks at eve In hurdl'd Cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1926 - 412 pages
...overleap'd all bound Of Hill or highesl Wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling Wolfe, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where Shepherds pen thir Flocks at eeve In hurdl'd Cotes amid the Jield secure, Leaps o're the fence with ease into the... | |
 | Adolph Charles Babenroth, Howard Thompson Viets - American literature - 1928 - 628 pages
...is a further prerequisite to easy comprehension, and therefore to effect. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching...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, Cross-barr'd,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...overleaped all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching...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, Cross-barred... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 198 pages
...New Testament. When Satan does get there he leaps in with a related simile, As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve. IV 183 And, flying into the Tree of Life, he sits there ' like a cormorant ' (196). The 'windy sea... | |
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On the other side; which, when the arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd ; and, in contempt, At one slight bound high overleap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to... 
