 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they ereep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered eities her of tea. Come here, my sweet landlady, pray how d'ye do ? Where is Cieily so eleanly, and peaee high triumphs hold, M'ith store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influenee, and judge the prize... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...day-lab'rers 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 crop-full out of doors he flings, Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length. Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And, cropful, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please- us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1828 - 392 pages
...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 hairy strength, And, crop-full,...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Regardless of Mr. Gifford's sneer at " those who may undertake the unprofitable drudgery of tracing... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...that was called Lob-lye-by-the-Jlre.' Knight of the B. Pestle, act iii. sc. 1. Warton. VOL. III. L Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full...he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus clone the tales, to bed they creep, 113 By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...day-laborers 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...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Tims done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1833 - 474 pages
...day-lab'rers 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, crop-full,...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." L' 'AHegro. When the menials in a Scottish family protracted their vigils around the kitchen fire,... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 1104 pages
...Then lies him down the lubbur tiend. And.stn-trli'd out all the c.liimney'a length Banks at the tire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings. Ere the first cock his matin rings.'r L'Allefro. When the meninls in a Scottish family protracted their vigile around tlif kitchen... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 428 pages
...day-lah'rers 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 crop-full,...doors he flings Ere the first cock his matin rings." But, notwithstanding the fancied services of this frolic loving elf, it appears from the following... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - England - 1834 - 432 pages
...day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out nil the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full,...doors he flings Ere the first cock his matin rings." But, notwithstanding the fancied services of this frolic loving elf, it appears from the following... | |
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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... 
