 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...  Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle - Seite 4061814Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 Seiten
...thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And strech'd out all the chimney's length. Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And cropful nut of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed... | |
 | English poetry - 1809 - 302 Seiten
...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 length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 Seiten
...the corn, That ten day-labourers 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 crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 Seiten
...the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of door be flings, Ere the first cock his matiu rings. Mr. M. seems indeed to have... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 Seiten
...the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end j Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, 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... | |
 | Enos Bronson - 1810 - 462 Seiten
...the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Mr. M. seems, indeed, to have... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 Seiten
...tiptoes down into the kitchen and beholds where Li?s him down Ihe lubher fiend, Arid stretch'd ont all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy...the daemons, sylphs, gnomes, sprites, elves, peries, genii, and above all the fairies of the fireside, the salamanders, lob-lye-by-the-fires, lars, lemures,... | |
 | William Collins - 1811 - 162 Seiten
...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, crop-full, out of doors be flings, E'er the first cock his matin rings. L'AUtgro. 4 When the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 706 Seiten
...morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; 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 in.iri.iu ring*. That his Majesty is not... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 Seiten
...play. That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, 110 And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, 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... | |
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