...Howard,37 of Mon30. John Milton, "Lycidas," line 125. The original reads: The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. 31. T. Wesley Mills (1847-1915): Canadian physiologist and veterinarian. He was a classmate of Osler's...

...their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed. But swoln with wind, and the rank...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: 70 (Lyc idas [1637], 11s. 119-127) Thus, in response to a clear and obvious calling, Wesley set out...

...their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed...

...their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw. The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: joo 105 IIO "5 120 125 96. Hippotades is Aeolus, son of Hippotas, and sage perhaps because he was the...

...Grate on their scrannel pipes of 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. (lines 114-17, 123-28) The striking pun upon famished "sheep" (ie, congregants) swelling with wind...

...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 and the rank...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...

...Milton directs this demonizing strategy against prelates, or "Blind Mouths!" whose unfortunate flock are not fed, But swoln with wind, and the rank mist...they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim Wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. . . . (125-2.9) The...

...distressing image, and Milton touches it very lightly, picking it up again in an appropriate context: But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly . . . In the writing of Lycidas there are four creative principles of particular importance. To say...

...unresponsiveness to hungry parishioners and comes from Milton's "Lycidas": 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.29 In the era of Johnson's and Nixon's presidencies, such tales seemed no more feverish than...

...their lean and Mashy songs Grate on iheir scrannel pipes of wretched straw; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, 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...