 | Samuel Butler - 1822 - 516 pages
...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 shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn Which ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber-fiend."... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 418 pages
...conduct of Robin Good-fellow, described so charmingly by Milton : " 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 thresh'd the corn That ten day labourers could not end; Then lays him down the lubber-fiend, And... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...the cream-bowl, duly set! When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, B His shadowy tlail had thrat>h'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend; And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire, his airy strength, And, crop-full,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 270 pages
...earn the cream-bowl, duly set t When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy tlail had thrash'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend; And, stretchM out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire, his airy strength; And, crop-full, out... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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,...day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...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,...His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, 98 NEW ELEGANT EXTRACTS. Where glowing... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...Land. Milton's Description of Brovvny in 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; Then lays him down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...infallibly occasions his disappearance for ever, t • '—how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn the cream-bowl, duly set ; When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flaifhad thresh'd the com. That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber-fiend,... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 474 pages
...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 mom. His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the com. That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...was pincht, 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,...His 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... | |
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sh *aid, And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin swet, 105 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... 
