 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1821 - 534 pages
...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,...crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his mattin rings. L' Allegro. * It is told of a Brownie, who haunted a Border family, now extinct, that... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 pages
...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,...crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his mattin rings. L' Allegro. When the menials in a Scottish family protracted their vigils wound the kitchen... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 532 pages
...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,...And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first eock his mattin rings. L' Allegro. When the menials in a Scottish family protracted their vigils around... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 416 pages
...flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lays him down the lubber-fiend, And 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." But beside these household Dobbies, there are others... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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 chimney's length, Basks...the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of d<jors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And, cropful, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin...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 men, Where... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...shadowy flail hath 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,...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. In the old Moralities, it was customary to introduce the devil... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, no 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. In the old Moralities, it was customary to introduce the... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...55 The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty ; And if I give thee honour due> Mirth, admit me of thy crew, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rir.gs. To live with her, and live wiih thee, Thus done the talcs, to bed they creep. 119 In unreproved... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...the Corn That ten day labourers could not end j Then lays him down the lubbar fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length Basks at the fire his...doors he flings, Ere the first Cock his matin rings. We finish our account with Shakespeare's inimitable description of Queen Mab the Queen of Fairies :... | |
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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,... 
