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" 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... "
Allegro und Penseroso - Page 14
by John Milton - 1782 - 31 pages
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The Rhine, Legends, Traditions, History, from Cologne to Mainz, Volume 1

Joseph Snowe - Folklore - 1839 - 590 pages
...the corn, That ten day-lahourers 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 at door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." L'Allegro. Shakspeare has unequivocally...
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The Rhine, Legends, Traditions, History, from Cologne to Mainz, Volume 1

Joseph Snowe - Folklore - 1839 - 560 pages
...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 j And crop full out at door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." L'Allegro. Shakspeare has...
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The chief of Glen-Orchay [a poem, by W. Bennet].

William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - 278 pages
...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, " tradition has ascribed...
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Observations on Popular Antiquities: Chiefly Illustrating the ..., Volume 2

John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...flale hath 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...crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." The following on the same suhject is from the " Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...hath thresh'd the com, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fíend, ach alley has a brother. And half the platform just doore he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, lo bed they creep, By whispering...
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Punch, Volumes 62-63

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1872 - 578 pages
...farm-work — " 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." Thus both Classical and later antiquity combine in asserting the existence of dsemons or goblins whose...
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Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...flail hath thresh'd the com, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, iev'd ? Great acts require great means of enterprise;...unknown, unfriended, low of birth, A carpenter thy matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend. matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep. By whispering winds Boon lull'd asleep. Tower'd...
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Shakespeare [sic] and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ...

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 970 pages
...Milton seems to have been indebted for his " drudging Goblin :" — • " the lunbar-fiemi, ' Who' probable allusion 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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...fiend, And, stretch'dout all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; L ALLEGRO. And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd...
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