 | British poets - 1822 - 296 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,...His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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,...of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, Then lies him down theJubbar-fiend, That ten day-laborers could not end ; And, stretch'd out all the... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 416 pages
...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 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...of the Lar Familiaris of the ancients. 1 — how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn the cream- bowl, duly set ! When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy tlail had tbratrii'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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 shad'wy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...pinch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Telle how the drudging goblin sweat, ALE. I trowe men wolde deme it negligence, If I foryetu?...the listes really, That swiche a noble theatre as i lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength. And... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...Reed's Old PI. xi. 254. Again, ibid. p. 238. For I shall fleet their crcam-liou-lt night by night. When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy...day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...it Fairy Land. Milton's Description of Browny jn his L'Allegro is fine: — Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To earn his creambowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flale hath threshed the Corn That ten day labourers could not end j Then lays him down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 pages
...descriptive poems in the English language, " 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 thrashed the corn " That ten day labourers could not end : " Then lies him down the lubbard fiend,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...pinch'd and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drndging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of mom, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
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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... 
