 junkets eat. She was pinched and pulled, she said ; And he, 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 threshed the corn That ten day-labourers...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 151by John Milton - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets eat: She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said; And be, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin...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, And,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819 - 382 pages
...nut-brown ale, With stories told of many u feat, How faery Mab the junkets eat: She was pineh'd and pull'd, she said; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, 'I'o earn his eream-bowl, duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...Goodfellow, and Jack o'Lantern. It is in allusion to this mischievous demon that Milton's clown speaks,— She was pinched and pulled, she said, And he by friar's lantern led. " The History of Friar Rush" is of extreme rarity, and, for some time, even the existence of such a... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1821 - 260 pages
...nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How fairy 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 swet To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...ale, With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets eat. She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how...night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...ale, With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets eat. She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how...night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the-lubbar-fiend, And,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 pages
...ale," With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led : Tells how...one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn Which ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber-fiend."... | |
 | Thomas Forster - Climatology - 1823 - 490 pages
...under which such charges have taken place do not appear to have been sufficiently attended to. * " She was pinched and pulled, she said, And he by Friar's Lantern led." Milton. The late M. Edward Forster mentioned to me that this phaenomenon used to be common in the marshes... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat, She was pinch'd and pull'd, n. thresh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, 98 NEW... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets ate: She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how...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 lubbar-fiend, And,... | |
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