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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... "
The beauties of English poetry, selected from the most esteemed authors, by ... - Page 53
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...eat ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she sed, And by the friar's l.inthorn led ; Tells how the drudging goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When...glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the c rn, That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...frier's lanthorn led ; Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, ' When When in one night ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy...thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end j Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire...
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Smart, Wilkie, P. Whitehead, Fawkes, Lovibond, Harte, Langhorne, Goldsmith ...

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...junkets eat ; She waspinch'd, andpull'd, shesed, And by the friar's lanthorn led; Toils how the drudging goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When...night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh d the c rn, That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down the lubbar fiend. And slretch'd...
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 29

Monthly literary register - 1810 - 730 pages
...pinch'd, and puIlM, she said ; And he, by friar's lanthern led : Tellsliow the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set ; When in one night, ere glimpse of morn. His shadowy flail had thresh 'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; 'i hca I»Y» him down the luU/ci fiend,...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 4

Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...pinch'd, and pull'd, 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 had thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And,...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

English poetry - 1811 - 1054 pages
...this invisible power was able to unravel 'it. It, like _ j-" the drudging g oblin sweat To earuhis cream-bowl duly set. When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, . His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn Th.it ten Jay-lalvmren. co-jM'ni>t end: And stretch'd out all thechimncy'slength,...
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The poetical works of William Collins

William Collins - 1811 - 162 pages
...occasions his disappearance for everi. * ' — bow the drudging goblin swet, To earn the cream-bowl, dnly set ; When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrash'd the corn. That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend And,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said ; And lie, by friar*s lanthorn led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, 105 To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night,...daylab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, 110 And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Masks at the fire his hairy strength...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 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,...of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, 97- The young I should refer to the prototype of Fortinbras in Hamlet, (fig. 52) and the old to Polonius...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 3-4

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,...
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