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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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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 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, When, in one night,...His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's Ian thorn led ; .r Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail has thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end : Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 7

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...pinch'd and pull'd, she said ; And be, 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-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's...
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Hudibras, a Poem, Volume 2

Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 584 pages
...was piuch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led : Tell how the drudging goblet 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-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber-fiend."...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 23

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...occasions his disappearance for ever. * * —how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn the cream bowl, duly set! When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrash 'd the corn, That ten day laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend ;...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...was pinch'd, and pull'd, she sed ; And he, by friars lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin swct, with other common interludes ; happening, tlirough the poet's errour day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, rtretch'd out all the chimney's...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 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 ; 1 Then lies him down the lubber fiend."...
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of Historical and ..., Volume 1

Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1821 - 534 pages
...for ever.* We learn from Olaus Magnus, When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn. His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten 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,...
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet, Volume 1

Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 532 pages
...for ever.* We learn from Olaus Magnus, When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten 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,...
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish border: consisting of historical and ..., Volume 1

Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...for ever.* We learn from Olaus Magnus, When, in one night, ere glimpse of mom, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten 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,...
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