 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...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 761837Full view - About this book
 | John Stoddart - Scotland - 1801 - 402 pages
...innocent little being, answering in every thing but size, to Milton's " drudging goblin," who - " sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, Which ten day-lab'rers could not end." The presence... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd and pull'd,'shc said; And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin swet To earn nis cream-bowl duly set, '. "; i . When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd... | |
 | John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...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 thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pages
...infallibly occasions his disappearance for evert. * ' —how the drudging goblin swet, To earn the cream-bowl, duly set ; When, in one night, ere glimpse of mom. His shadowy flail had tbrasb'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end , Then lies him down the Inbbar fiend And,... | |
 | Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...faery MAB the junkets eat, She was pinch 'tl and pu-ll'd, she said, Tells how the drudging Goblin swot, 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 , W'hen in one night , ere glimpse of morn , His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day- labourers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...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 ; ' Then lies... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...shield's unruly weight. Cnulty. •s. To toil; to labour; to drudge. How the drudging goblin ruitt To earn his cream-bowl duly set; "When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn. Mill. Our author, not content to see That others write... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...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 ; " Then lies... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...pincht, and pull'd, she said, And he by friars' Ian thorn 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... | |
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