 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...  Hudibras, a Poem - Page 227by Samuel Butler - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...pinch't and pull'd, she said, And he, by friar's lanthorn led, Tells how the drudging goblin swet, 105 To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy fail hath thresh'd the corn, 97- The young I should refer to the prototype ofFortinbras in Hamlet,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar'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 lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's Ian thorn led ; .r Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail has thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end : Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...She was 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, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That 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 ; And,... | |
 | 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 hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 pages
...was 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
...particularly of food, infallibly occasions his disappearance 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 532 pages
...particularly of food, infallibly occasions his disappearance 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 418 pages
...the conduct of Robin Good-fellow, described so charmingly by Milton : " Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one...glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lays him down the lubber-fiend, And stretch 'd out all... | |
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