 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 534 страници
...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 - 418 страници
...flax. All 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 496 страници
...fairy Mab the junkets eat ; She was 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...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,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 страници
...faery Mab the junkets eat. She was 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...one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 страници
...of the Lar Familiaris of the ancients. 1 — how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn the cream- bowl, duly set ! When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy tlail had tbratrii'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 страници
...fairy Mab the junkets ate ; She was 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 down the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
...fairy Mab the junkets eat, She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Telle unfold. PART OF THE KNlGHTES TALE. I trowe men wolde...negligence, If I foryetu? to teilen the dispence Of Theseus hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 страници
...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 down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 страници
...ate : She was 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 420 страници
...descriptive poems in the English language, ' Tells how the drudging Goblin sweat ' To earn his creum bowl duly set, ' When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, ' His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn ' That ten day labourers could not end: ' Then lies him down the lubbard fiend, "... | |
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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... 
