 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...  Superstitions about Animals - Page 137by Frank F. Gibson - 1904 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells 5 5Y8Z8[8\8 5 5 5O8P8Q8R8c8T8 5 5 5q&r&? had thrash'd the corn, That ten dny-lab'rers could not end, Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And,... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - 340 pages
...appellation, but Milton has drawn their portraiture, and — " Tells how the drudgin goblin sweat, To earn the cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thrashed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lays him down, the lubber fiend, And... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 442 pages
...Tells how the drudging goblin swet, To ern his cream-bowle duly set, When, in one night, ere glimps of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn...day-labourers could not end. Then lies him down, the lubbar fend ; And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1994 - 518 pages
...ern his Cream-bowle duly set, / When one night ere glimps of morn, / His shadowy Flale hath threshed the Corn / That ten day-labourers could not end, / Then lies him down the Lubbar Fend" (11. 105-110). 75.27 HERE WAS LATELY . . . HIS OWN. Emerson based this passage on gossip... | |
 | David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - English literature - 1992 - 428 pages
...Mab the junkets eat; She was 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...day-labourers 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, (1. 93—98) 23 Tells h y threshed the corn That ten day-laborers could not end: Then lies him down the lubber fend. And stretched... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...She was pinched and pulled, she said; And by the Friars' lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin57 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, 110 And,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 394 pages
...the drudging GOBLIN swet To earn his cream-bowle duly set ; When in one night, ere glimpse of morne, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end 5 Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire... | |
 | 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... | |
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