 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...the junkets eat; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said; And he, by friars lantern led, J Pole-Star. Tells how the drudging goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl...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... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1844 - 318 pages
...those wellknown lines of Milton's I/ Allegro, which the antiquarian Peck supposes to be owing to it : " Tells how the drudging Goblin swet To earn his cream-bowl...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 chimneys... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin sweat v " o f l l v e ݩK t 1 f { f W m5 w C o M2ۧ |s } = 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...faery Mab the junkets eat; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, 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, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he, by friars' 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 thrash'd the corn, That ten-day laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he, by friars' 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 thrash'd the corn, That ten-day laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 292 pages
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he, by friars' 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 thrash'd the corn, That ten-day laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he, by friars' 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 thrash'd the corn, That ten-day laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...pinched, and pulled, she said, And he,3 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-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber4 fiend,... | |
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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... 
