 As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve 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...  Essays - Page 346by Herbert Spencer - 1910Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, 190 In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, 195 Sat like... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, 190 In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold : So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, 195 Sat like... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Cross-harr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, 190 In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles: So clomb this first grand Thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he (lew, and on the tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, 195 Sat like... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...the fold ; Or as a thief, hent to•unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors, Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Or as a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors, Cross-barrM and bolted fast, fear no assault, In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles: So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lew'd hirelings climb. Thence up... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, 190 In. at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. /Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, 195 Sat like... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...Cross-harrM and boiled fast, fear no assault, 190 In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, Tbe middle tree and highest there that grew, 195 Sat like... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors, Cnm-harr'd and bolted fist, nder from my native home, And (tempting perils) foreign cities r domb this first grand thief into God's fold ; &> anoe into his church lewd hirelings climb. TTtnce... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...into the fold: Or as a thief, bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors, Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles: So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...Cross-barr'd and bolted fast, fear no assault, In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles ; So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold : So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a... | |
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