 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 страници
...How Fairy Mab the junkets eat; She was pinched and pulled, she said, And he by friar's lanthorn led ; Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl...night, ere glimpse of morn. His shadowy flail had threshed the corn. That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 страници
...pinch'd, and pull'd she said, And he by friars' lanthorn led Tells how the drudging Goblin sweat, ios 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 down the lubber fiend,... | |
 | William Martin - 1852 - 434 страници
...wellknown lines of Milton's " L' Allegro." " Tells how the drudging goblin swet To earn his creame-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." But, after all, the old ballad best describes... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 страници
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she sed; And he, by friar's lantern 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, That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the Inbbar fiend, 110... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 428 страници
...ho !" Milton thus celebrates this spirit in his " L' Allegro." " Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flale hath thresh'd the corn, Then ten day-lah'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 432 страници
...ho !" Milton thus celebrates this spirit in his " L' Allegro." " Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of mom, His shadowy flale hath thresh'd the corn, Then ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 276 страници
...dame's flax. All this is precisely the conduct of Robin Goodfellow, 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, etretch'd... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 страници
...she said, And hy the friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging gohlin swet, To ern his cream-howle duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flale hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-lahourers could not end ; Then lies him down the luhhar fiend,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 страници
...she said, And by the friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin swet, To ern his cream-bowle duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flale hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend.... | |
 | 1837 - 538 страници
...was pinched and pulled she sed, And lie by Friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl duly set ; When in one night ere glimpse of mom, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
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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... 
