 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...  Bracebridge Hall; Or, The Humorists - Página 184por Washington Irving - 1822 - 404 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...How fairy Mab the junkets eat; She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lanthorn led ; Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl...one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 páginas
...fairy Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's Ian thorn led ; .r Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl...one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail has thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end : Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 páginas
...faery Mab the junkets eat : She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said ; And be, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl,...one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...was pinch'd, and pull'd, she sed ; And he, by friars lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin swct, with other common interludes ; happening, tlirough the poet's errour hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 páginas
...faery Mab the junkets eat. She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl...one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 270 páginas
...of the Lar Familiaris of the ancients. 1 — how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn the cream- bowl, duly set ! When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy tlail had tbratrii'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...fairy Mab the junkets ate ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, 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 shad'wy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 páginas
...fairy Mab the junkets eat, She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Telle unfold. PART OF THE KNlGHTES TALE. I trowe men wolde...negligence, If I foryetu? to teilen the dispence Of Theseus hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 páginas
...Land. Milton's Description of Browny jn his L'Allegro is fine: — Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To earn his creambowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flale hath threshed the Corn That ten day labourers could not end j Then lays him down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 páginas
...ate : She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drndging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of mom, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
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