 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 sivua
...pinch'd and pull'd, she said, ' And he by frier'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-labourers could not end ; 1 Then lies... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 416 sivua
...conduct of Robin Good-fellow, described so charmingly by Milton : " Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set. When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lays him... | |
 | 1822 - 284 sivua
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said ; And he, 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, Then lies him down theJubbar-fiend, That ten day-laborers... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sivua
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he 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 shad'wy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 sivua
...to inhabit, and called it Fairy Land. Milton's Description of Browny jn his L'Allegro is fine: — Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To earn his creambowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flale hath threshed the Corn That ten day labourers could not end j Then lays him... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 sivua
...pinch'd and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drndging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of mom, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sivua
...pinch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Telle how the drudging goblin sweat, ALE. I trowe men wolde deme it negligence, If I foryetu? to teilen morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 sivua
...Mab the junkets cat ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she scd ; And he, by friars lantern led, Tells bow the drudging goblin swet, 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... | |
 | 1826 - 310 sivua
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said ; And he, 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 had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 sivua
...was pincht, and pull'd she said, And he 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-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him... | |
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