 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 Yale Literary Magazine - 124. oldal1861Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Thomas Forster - 1823 - 490 oldal
...under which such charges have taken place do not appear to have been sufficiently attended to. * " She was pinched and pulled, she said, And he by Friar's Lantern led." Milton. The late M. Edward Forster mentioned to me that this phaenomenon used to be common in the marshes... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 oldal
...fairy Mab the junkets eat, She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Telle unfold. PART OF THE KNlGHTES TALE. I trowe men wolde...negligence, If I foryetu? to teilen the dispence Of Theseus hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 oldal
...ate : She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how the drndging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of mom, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 420 oldal
...descriptive poems in the English language, ' Tells how the drudging Goblin sweat ' To earn his creum bowl duly set, ' When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, ' His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn ' That ten day labourers could not end: ' Then lies him down the lubbard fiend, "... | |
 | Ebenezer Rhodes - 1824 - 422 oldal
...descriptive poems in the English language, " 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 thrashed the corn " That ten day labourers could not end : " Then lies him down the lubbard fiend,... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 oldal
...wanderers, turn your steps aside, Nor trust the guidance of that faithless light. So Milton observes : — She was pinched and pulled, she said, And he by Friar's Lantern led. This phenomenon used to be common in the marshes between Walthamstow and Tottenham, but it has now... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 oldal
...And he, bv friar's lantern led, Such as hang on Hehe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; 30 Tells how" the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, ICi Sport that wrinkled Care derides. When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, And Laughter holding... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 oldal
...wandering fire Compact of unctuous rapour, which the night, &c. Which oft, they say, some evil ipirit Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, 105 In the midst of a solemn and learned enarration, his strong imagination could not resist a romantic... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 oldal
...nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat, She was pineh'd and pull'd, eream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn. His shadowy flail hnth thresh'd the eorn... | |
 | 1826 - 310 oldal
...ale, With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led, Tells how...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 lubbar fiend, And,... | |
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