 | William Collins - 1848 - 156 sivua
...dny-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down ihe lubber fiend, And, stretch'd ont all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And, crop-full,...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. L'Al.I.cORO. ' When the menials in a Scottish family protracted their vigils around the kitchen fire,... | |
 | 1848 - 588 sivua
...stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled to sleep." Writing of the popular belief, at a still later period, — the beginning of the... | |
 | 1909 - 502 sivua
...day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubbar fend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of Knights and... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 sivua
...laden with corn and saltfish" (Goldsmid's reprint, 3, p. 70). LXXI. A Russian Triumph. 117 Towered, cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, 120 In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and... | |
 | Arthur McGee - 1987 - 230 sivua
...of the superstition: 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 out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his mattin rings. The Christian symbolism of the cock is underlined as Marcellus goes on: Some say that... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 sivua
...day-laborers could not end: Then lies him down the lubber fend. And stretched out all the chimney's length. . . 0 (1. 105-1 14) 24 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 448 sivua
...conspicuous station — ' to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat ' ; and adds : ' Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd to sleep.' 36. sad Tale's best for Winter] TYRWHITT: Hence, I suppose, the title of the play. — STEEVENS... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 sivua
...could not end; Then lies him down the Lubber Fiend, no And, stretch'd out all the Chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And Crop-full...Matin rings. Thus done the Tales, to bed they creep, 1 1 5 By whispering Winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red Cities please us then, And the busy hum of men,... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 sivua
...could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend.0 no And stretched out all the chimney's length,0 Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings,0 Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering... | |
 | David Hill, John Sell Cotman - 2005 - 208 sivua
...line 'Towered cities please us then', taken from Milton's poem L'AIlegro. The context of the line is: Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered Cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and... | |
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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... 
