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
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 Seiten
...corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber 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... | |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 Seiten
...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 crop-full out of door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to... | |
| William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 Seiten
...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 out of door be flings. Ere the first cock his matin rings." Sir Walter Scott says, "... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...the com, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fíend, And, stretch'd brother. And half the platform just ; And crop-full out of doore he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, lo... | |
| John Brand - 1841 - 356 Seiten
...thresh'd the corn That ten day-lah'rers could not end; Then lays him down the luhhar-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." The following on the same... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 Seiten
...seems to have been indebted for his " drudging Goblin :" — • " the lunbar-fiemi, ' Who' stretch'd llusion to them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his le But the most common tradition with regard to the Brownie is, that, in point of size, he was similar... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend. And, stretch'd and," she ; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 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... | |
| William James Linton - 1844 - 340 Seiten
...the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lays him down, the lubber fiend, And stretched 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." In Scotland, as well as... | |
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