 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 Beauties of English Poetry - Seite 53von Peter Pindar - 1804Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Stoddart - 1801 - 402 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 Seiten
...friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging goblin swet To earn nis cream-bowl duly set, '. "; i . When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the cor That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies h'nti'down tire hlbbar fiend, And, stretch' d oilt... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 756 Seiten
...d and pull' d she said, And he 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 Jlail had thresh' d the corn Which ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down the lubber fiend.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 Seiten
...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 duly set , W'hen in one night , ere glimpse of morn , His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day- labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend ,... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 168 Seiten
...infallibly occasions bis disappearance for evert. * ' —how the drudging goblin swet, To earn the cream-bowl, duly set ; When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrash1, 1 the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Tben lies him down the lubbar nend And,... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 Seiten
...earn the cream-bowl, duly set ; When, in one night, ere glimpse of mom. His shadowy flail had tbrasb'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end , Then lies him down the Inbbar fiend And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Banks at the fire hi: hairy strength ; And,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 Seiten
...pinch'd and pull'd, she said, " And he by frier's lanthorn 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-labourers could not end ; " Then lies him down the lubber fiend." A like account of Puck is given... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 Seiten
...pinch'd and pull'd, she said, " And he by frier's lanthorn 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-labourers could not end ; ' Then lies him down the lubber fiend." A like account of Puck is given... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 Seiten
...shield's unruly weight. Cnulty. •s. To toil; to labour; to drudge. How the drudging goblin ruitt To earn his cream-bowl duly set; "When in one night,...of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn. Mill. Our author, not content to see That others write as carelessly as he ; Though he pretends not... | |
 | 1806 - 408 Seiten
...pincht, and pull'd, she said, And he by friars' Ian thorn 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-labourers could not end, Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch 'd out all the chimney's... | |
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