 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 pages
...earn his cream-bowl duly fet, When in one night, ere glimpfe of morn, His fhadowy flale hath threm'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, no And ftreteh'd out all the chimney's length, Bafks at the fire his hairy ftrength,... | |
 | John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...hellschimmernder Stern. i3 Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, io5 To earn his cream-bowl duly set, Wheu in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, no And stretch'd out all the chimney's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 460 pages
...Mab the junkets eat j She was pinch' d and pull' d she said, And he by friar' 's lanthorn led ; Tell how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in me night, ere glimpse of morn, Mis shadowy Jlail had thresh' d the corn, Which ten day-labourers could... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 pages
...And he by frier's Janthorn led -,...' Tells how the drudging goblin swet, 105 To earn his eream-bpwl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flale hath thresh'd tire corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...earn his cream-bowl duly fet, When in one night, ere glimpfe of morn, His fhadowy flale hath threm'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, 110 And ftretch'd out all the chimney's length, Eafks at the fire his hairy ftrength,... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 pages
...she said; And he, by friar's-lantern led, 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 thresh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down die lubbar fiend, And... | |
 | John Stoddart - 1801 - 402 pages
...an 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 pages
...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 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Wolcot - 1804 - 180 pages
...was pinch'd and pull'd, she said. And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the'drudging Goblin swet, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night,...His 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... | |
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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... 
