| John Bell - 1788 - 628 pagine
...tire corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, no And streteh'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And erop-full out of doors he flings, ,,.'..' Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales,... | |
| 1810 - 700 pagine
...end ; Then bys him down the lubber fiend, Afti, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basics at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of door he flings, tir the first cock liis matin rings. Mr. M. seems indeed to have и turn for powers he has displayed,... | |
| Walter Whiter - 1800 - 614 pagine
...flalc hath thresh'd the corn, " That ten day lab'rcrs could not end; " Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, " And stretch'd out all the chimney's length,...fire his hairy strength, " And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, " Ere the first cock his matin rings." The CROP-FULL spirit is the GosLm under, the... | |
| John Wolcot - 1804 - 180 pagine
...in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend,...the fire his hairy strength, And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring... | |
| William Collins - 1804 - 166 pagine
...shadowy flail had tbrasli'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 length....the fire his hairy strength; And, crop-full, out of doors he Mings, E'er the first cock his matin rings. L-AlUgro. ' When the menials in a Scottish family... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pagine
...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 the lubber fiend, And stretch'd out all Hie chimney's length-. Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And, crop-full, out of doors he flings,... | |
| William Enfield - 1805 - 456 pagine
...cream-bowl duly fet, When in one-night, ere glimpfs of mom, His fhadowy flail had threfh'd the csi:i That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, ftretch'd out all the chimney's length, Balks at the fire his hairy ilrength, And, cropful, out of... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pagine
...glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail has thrash'd the corn That ten day-1. b'rers could not end; Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire liis hairy strength, And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 384 pagine
...cream-bowl duly set, " When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, " His shadowy flail hath thrcsh'd the corn, " That ten day-labourers could not end ; " Then lies him down the lubber fiend." A like account of Puck is given by Drayton, in his Nymphidia: " He meeteth Puck, which most men call... | |
| Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 pagine
...'9 Sternitur, exanimisque tremens, procumbit humi bos. VIRG. 1 There lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength: MILTON. I The fearful uproar e'en the flooring rends, And to the dark depot of wine descends 2 , Where... | |
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