 | Monthly literary register - 1810 - 730 pages
...long abused. From these rustic fictions we are transporter! to another species of hum, Tewcr'd citiei please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds «f peace high triumphs hold, "With nan tflaJitt, whose bright eyes Rain infuaste, and judge the prize... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lulib.iv fiend, And, stretch'dout all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of doors he flings, F.re the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...thrcsh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lays him down the lubber fiend, j\nd, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Mr. M. seems indeed to have a turn for this species... | |
 | William Collins - 1811 - 162 pages
...shadowy flail had thrash'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....his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors be flings, E'er the first cock his matin rings. L'AUtgro. 4 When the menials in a Scottish family protracted... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 456 pages
...day-labourers could not end ; ' Then lies him down the lubber fiend, ' Arijjjstretch'd out all the chimneys length, ' Basks at the fire his hairy strength, '...crop-full out of doors he flings, ' Ere the first cock his matins rings." The reader will observe that our simple ancestors had reduced all these whimsies to... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...character in that play. That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, 110 And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...matin rings, Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, 115 JBy whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. __.._„ -___---,-._ - -. -I-, . T 110. The lubbar-fiend... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...character in that play. That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, 1 10 And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...matin rings, Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, 115 By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. 110. The lubbar-fiend would seem clearly to ~be referable... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Masks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop- full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, 115 By whispering winds soon lullVl asleep. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...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 length,...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of nun, Where... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of door he (lings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the...they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men ; Where throngs of knights and barons bold In... | |
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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,... 
