 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...  Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx - Side 280af Sir John Rhys - 1901 - 718 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 sider
...day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 sider
...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 creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 sider
...day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. In the old Moralities,... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 sider
...labourers could not end j Then lays him down the lubbar fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And cropfull,...doors he flings, Ere the first Cock his matin rings. We finish our account with Shakespeare's inimitable description of Queen Mab the Queen of Fairies :... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 sider
...day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full...doors he flings Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sider
...if I give thee honour due> Mirth, admit me of thy crew, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sider
...fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength. And crop full ou ride." And forthwith, as I couth, most humily I take my Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered cities please... | |
 | 1826 - 310 sider
...could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's leftgth, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full,...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 sider
...day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 sider
...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 creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please-... | |
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