 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...  The Fairy Mythology - Page 154by Thomas Keightley - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...goblin swet, To ern bis cream-bowle duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flale 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 clumney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength And... | |
 | Boys - 1852 - 466 pages
...supposes to be owing to it: — "Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn Ms cream-bowl dnly set; "When in one night, ere glimpse of mom , His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretched... | |
 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...the drudging Goblin4 swet. To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in 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 lubbar5 fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...the drudging Goblin4 swet. To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in 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 lubbar5 fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ;... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...the drudging goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl duly set,' When in 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 lubbar fiend, And, streteh'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...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, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1855 - 172 pages
...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, And stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And cropful, out of doors... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Animals - 1855 - 170 pages
...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, And stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And cropful, out of doors... | |
 | Edwin Waugh - Lancashire (England) - 1855 - 282 pages
...cream-bowl, duly set, When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy Hail had thrash'd the corn Which ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend : And, streteh'd out, all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire, his hairy strength j And cropful, out of... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...his cream bowl duly set, 2 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 lubbar fiend, . And stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And... | |
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