 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 Monthly magazine - Էջ 293Monthly literary register - 1810Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 էջ
...Mab the junkets eat; She was 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...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 down the lubber fiend,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 էջ
...junkets eat ; She was 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...one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail has thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end : Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 էջ
...the junkets eat : She was 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,...one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 584 էջ
...She 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 down the lubber-fiend." Butler,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 էջ
...occasions his disappearance for ever. * * —how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn the cream bowl, duly set! When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrash 'd the corn, That ten day laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend ; And,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 էջ
...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 errour hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 էջ
...junkets eat ; " She was 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...one night, ere glimpse of morn, " His shadowy flail hath thresh d the corn " That ten day-labourers could not end ; " Then lies him down the lubber fiend."... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 532 էջ
...particularly of food, infallibly occasions his disappearance for ever.* We learn from Olaus Magnus, When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 534 էջ
...particularly of food, infallibly occasions his disappearance for ever.* We learn from Olaus Magnus, When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn. His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 416 էջ
...this is precisely the conduct of Robin Good-fellow, described so charmingly by Milton : " Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly...night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lays him down the lubber-fiend, And stretch'd... | |
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