 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...  Scottish Rivers - Página 209por Sir Thomas Dick Lauder - 1874 - 328 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Milton - 1759 - 414 páginas
...earn his cream-bowl duly fet, When in one night, ere glimpfe of morn, His fhadowy flale hath threfh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, no And ftretch'd out all the chimney's length, Baiks at the fire his hairy ftrength,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 288 páginas
...earn his cream-bowl duly fet, When in one night, ere glimpfe of morn, Kis fhadowy flale had thrafh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbard fiend, And ftretch'd out all tlu. chimney's length, Bafks at the fire his hairy ftrength, And,... | |
 | John Milton - 1785 - 698 páginas
...you into madncfs ? • When in one night, ere glimpfe of morn, • His fhadowy flale hath threfh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, I lo And ftretch'd out all the chimney's length, Bafks at the fire his hairy ftrength,... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 páginas
...And he by frier's Janthorn led -,...' Tells how the drudging goblin swet, 105 To earn his eream-bpwl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flale hath thresh'd tire corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | George Ellis - 1790 - 346 páginas
...earn his cream-bowl duly fet, When in one night, ere glimpfe of morn, His fhadowy flail hath threfh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubbar fiend, And ftretch'd out all the chimney's length, Bafks at the fire his hairy ftrengtb, And... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1789 - 488 páginas
...earn his cream-bowl duly let, When in one night, ere glimpfe of mom, His fludowy flail hath threfh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And ftretch d out all the chimney's length, Bai ks a the fire bis hairy ftrength, And... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 páginas
...fa'iry 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...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 die lubbar fiend, And... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 páginas
...earn his cream- bowl duly fet, When in one night, ere glimpfe of morn, His fhadowy flail hath tnrefh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And ftretch'd out all the chimney's length, Bafks at the fire his hairy ftrength, And... | |
 | John Stoddart - 1801 - 402 páginas
...answering in every thing but size, to Milton's " drudging goblin," who - " 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-lab'rers could not end." The presence of the Brownie was believed... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 páginas
...friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin swet To earn nis cream-bowl duly set, '. "; i . When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the cor That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies h'nti'down tire hlbbar fiend, And,... | |
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