 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 - Page 53by Peter Pindar - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...pinched and pulled, 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, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubbar fend, And, stretched... | |
 | Samuel Bamford, W. H. Chaloner - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 602 pages
...the passage of his inimitable poem. " 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 thrash 'd the corn Which ten day labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend... | |
 | 1860 - 48 pages
...was pinched and pulled, 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 threshed the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And... | |
 | David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - English literature - 1992 - 428 pages
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said; And he, by friar's lanthern 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 lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, (1. 93—98) 23 Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, threshed the corn That ten day-laborers could not end: Then lies him down the lubber fend. And stretched... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...from care. Cf. PL IV, 791 and And he, by Friar's Lantern led, Tells how the drudging Goblin sweat 105 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 Lubber Fiend, no And, stretch'd out all the Chimney's... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...pinched, and pulled she said, And he by friar's lantern led0 Tells how the drudging goblin sweat,0 To earn his cream-bowl duly set, 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.0 no And... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 66 pages
...was pinched and pulled, 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 hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And,... | |
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