 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 - Page 53by Peter Pindar - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...waspinch'd, andpull'd, shesed, And by the friar's lanthorn led; Toils how the drudging goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh d the c rn, That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down the lubbar fiend. And slretch'd... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1810 - 730 pages
...pinch'd, and puIlM, she said ; And he, by friar's lanthern led : Tellsliow the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set ; When in one night, ere glimpse of morn. His shadowy flail had thresh 'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; 'i hca I»Y» him down the luU/ci fiend,... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...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 shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And,... | |
 | English poetry - 1811 - 1054 pages
...this invisible power was able to unravel 'it. It, like _ j-" the drudging g oblin sweat To earuhis cream-bowl duly set. When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, . His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn Th.it ten Jay-lalvmren. co-jM'ni>t end: And stretch'd out all thechimncy'slength,... | |
 | William Collins - 1811 - 162 pages
...occasions his disappearance for everi. * ' — bow the drudging goblin swet, To earn the cream-bowl, dnly set ; When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrash'd the corn. That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend And,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said ; And lie, by friar*s lanthorn led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, 105 To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night,...daylab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, 110 And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Masks at the fire his hairy strength... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...pinch't and pull'd, she said, And he, by friar's lanthorn led, Tells how the drudging goblin- swet, 105 To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night,...of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, 97- The young I should refer to the prototype of Fortinbras in Hamlet, (fig. 52) and the old to Polonius... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...pinch't and pull'd, she said, And he, by friar's lanthorn 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 fail hath thresh'd the corn, 97- The young I should refer to the prototype ofFortinbras in Hamlet,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 duly set, When, in one night,...His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...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 duly set, When in 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... | |
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