 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
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Ballads, Scots - 1821 - 534 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1821 - 532 pages
...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 pages
...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 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,...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... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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,...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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