 When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full...  The Saturday Magazine - Sivu 761837Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 sivua
...was pinch'd, and pull'd, she sed ; And he, by friars lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin swct, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 sivua
...pinch't and pull'd, she said, And he, by friar's lanthorn led, Tells how the drudging goblin- swet, 105 To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, 97- The young I should refer to the prototype of Fortinbras... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 sivua
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said ; And lie, by friar*s lanthorn led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, 105 To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten daylab'rers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 sivua
...pinch't and pull'd, she said, And he, by friar's lanthorn led, Tells how the drudging goblin swet, 105 To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy fail hath thresh'd the corn, 97- The young I should refer to the prototype ofFortinbras... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 sivua
...hair, and went about with a wand in his hand. He was the very counterpart of Milton's Lubber Fiend, who Tells how the drudging- goblin swet. To earn his cream-bowl duly set, &c. To BROWSE, va (brmucr, Fr.) To tal branches, or shrubs (S/jc/isrr). To BROWSE, v. ». To feed (B/uri-mnrr).... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 sivua
...pinch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lanthorn led ; Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 sivua
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's Ian thorn led ; .r Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail has thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end : Then lays him... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 584 sivua
...was piuch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led : Tell how the drudging goblet sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn Which ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 sivua
...pinch'd and pull'd, she said ; And be, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl, duly set, -When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 sivua
...was pinch'd, and pull'd, she sed ; And he, by friars lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin swct, with other common interludes ; happening, tlirough the poet's err morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
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