 | Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...earn his cream-bowl duly fet, When in one night, ere glimpfe of morn, His friadowy flail hath threfh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, no And ftretch'd out all the chimny's length, Bafks at the fire his hairy ftrength ;... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...earn his cream-bowl duly fet, When in one night, ere glimpfe of morn, His fhadowy flail hath threfh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And flretch'd out all the chimney's length, Bafks at the fire his hairy ftrength, And... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...And he by frier's Janthorn led -,...' Tells how the drudging goblin swet, 105 To earn his eream-bpwl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flal e hath thresh'd tire corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | 1793 - 376 pages
...his cream-bowle duly fet, When in one night, ere glimps of morn, His fliadowy flale hath threfti'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fend, no And ftretch'd out all the chimney's length, Bafks at the fire his hairy ftrength, And... | |
 | Walter Whiter - 1800 - 614 pages
...of Etymology, as a fountain or a palm tree in the deserts. " Tells how the drudging GOBLIN swet, " To earn his cream-bowl duly set, " When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, " His shadowy flalc hath thresh'd the corn, " That ten day lab'rcrs could not end; " Then lies him down the lubbar... | |
 | John Stoddart - Scotland - 1801 - 402 pages
...innocent little being, answering in every thing but size, to Milton's " drudging goblin," who - " sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, Which ten day-lab'rers could not end." ' The presence of the Brownie was believed... | |
 | John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...was pinch'd and pull'd, she said. And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the'drudging Goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night,...His 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... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pages
...particularly of food, infallibly occasions his disappearance * ' —how the drudging goblin swet, To earn the cream-bowl, duly set; When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had tbrasli'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend And,... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...puich'd, and pull'd, she said. And he by friar's lanthom led; Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of muni, His shadowy flail has thrash'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 pages
...pinch'd and pull'd she said, And lie by Frier's lanthorn led; Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To cam his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night ere glimpse of morn - His shadowy fail had thresh'd the corn Which ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down the lubber Jifnd.... | |
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