 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 Beauties of English Poetry - Página 53por Peter Pindar - 1804Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 páginas
...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, duly set, -When in one night,...His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 584 páginas
...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."... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 páginas
...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 ;... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...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 day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, rtretch'd out all the chimney's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 páginas
...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 him down the lubber fiend."... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 534 páginas
...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 out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 532 páginas
...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 out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And,... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 páginas
...for ever.* We learn from Olaus Magnus, When, in one night, ere glimpse of mom, 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 out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 páginas
...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,...His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's... | |
 | 1822 - 284 páginas
...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,...of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, Then lies him down theJubbar-fiend, That ten day-laborers could not end ; And, stretch'd out all the... | |
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