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,... Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes - Página 171por John Milton - 1853Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Scottish border - 1821 - 718 páginas
...shadowy flail had thresh'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,...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
...shadowy flail had thresh'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,...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
...shadowy flail had thresh'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,...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1822 - 416 páginas
...flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lays him down the lubber-fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length Basks at...the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full, out of door he flings Ere the first cock his matin rings." But beside these household Dobbies, there are others... | |
| 1822 - 284 páginas
...flail hath thresh'd the corn, Then lies him down theJubbar-fiend, That ten day-laborers could not end ; And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of d<jors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering... | |
| Washington Irving - 1822 - 418 páginas
...the corn That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lays him down the lubber-fiend, And stretch 'd out all the chimney's length Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full, out of door he flings Ere the first cock his matin rings." But beside these household Dobbies, there are others... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...shad'wy flail had 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, 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... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 páginas
...shadowy flail hath thresh'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,...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... | |
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