 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...  Allegro und Penseroso - Seite 14von John Milton - 1782 - 31 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 Seiten
...flail hath 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...hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please... | |
 | 1826 - 310 Seiten
...could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's leftgth, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...had 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 length. Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And, cropful, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1828 - 392 Seiten
...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 length, Basks...crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Regardless of Mr. Gifford's sneer at " those who may undertake the unprofitable drudgery... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...hath thrash'd the corn, Thet ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length. Basks...crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd... | |
 | Henry Fuseli - 1831 - 464 Seiten
...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab Yers 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. V. 101. Picture XXXI. receives still better light from the following lines in Paradise Lost, Book IX.... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 466 Seiten
...flail hath 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. V. 101. Picture XXXI. receives still better light from the following lines in Paradise Lost, Book IX.... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 Seiten
...that was called Lob-lye-by-the-Jlre.' Knight of the B. Pestle, act iii. sc. 1. Warton. VOL. III. L Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus clone the tales, to bed they creep, 113 By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 1104 Seiten
...Then lies him down the lubbur tiend. And.stn-trli'd out all the c.liimney'a length Banks at the tire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings. Ere the first cock his matin rings.'r L'Allefro. When the meninls in a Scottish family protracted their vigile around tlif... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 Seiten
...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,...crop-full out of doors he flings. Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, m By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. "0 lubber]... | |
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