| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 páginas
...character in that play. That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, 110 And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...matin rings, Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, 115 JBy whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. __.._„ -___---,-._ - -. -I-, . T 110. The lubbar-fiend... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 páginas
...shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length,...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 nun, Where... | |
| Scottish border - 1821 - 718 páginas
...When, in one night, ere glimpse of mom, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,...crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his mattin rings. L' Allegro. When the menials in a Scottish family protracted their vigils wound the kitchen... | |
| Walter Scott - 1821 - 534 páginas
...When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn. His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,...crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his mattin rings. L' Allegro. * It is told of a Brownie, who haunted a Border family, now extinct, that... | |
| Walter Scott - 1821 - 532 páginas
...When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,...And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first eock his mattin rings. L' Allegro. When the menials in a Scottish family protracted their vigils around... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 páginas
...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 lubbar fiend,...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. In the old Moralities, it was customary to introduce the devil... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 472 páginas
...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, no And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, 115 By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. In the old Moralities, it was customary to introduce the... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...55 The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty ; And if I give thee honour due> Mirth, admit me of thy crew, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rir.gs. To live with her, and live wiih thee, Thus done the talcs, to bed they creep. 119 In unreproved... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 páginas
...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 lubbar fiend,...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... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1828 - 392 páginas
...flail hath thresh'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,...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... | |
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