 | George Croly - 1850 - Počet stránok 442
...shadowy flail had threshed the corn That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length...the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his mntin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - Počet stránok 704
...shadowy flail hath thrash'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end: Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length,...the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. L ALLEGRO. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep,... | |
 | 1909 - Počet stránok 502
...flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubbar fend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks...the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering... | |
 | Samuel Bamford, W. H. Chaloner - 1967 - Počet stránok 602
...corn Which 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 door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin sings." By the side of the house, and... | |
 | Počet stránok 442
...the corn That ten day-labourers could not end. Then lies him down, the lubbar fend ; And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of dores he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings, ' is a matter of some difficulty. Perhaps the... | |
 | Arthur McGee - 1987 - Počet stránok 230
...(3.3.380-7) Milton also, in L'Allegro, shows that he knew of the superstition: Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length...the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his mattin rings. The Christian symbolism of the cock is underlined... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1991 - Počet stránok 1134
...flail had thresrTd the corn That ten day labourers could not end; Then lays him down the lubber-fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length Basks at...door he flings Ere the first cock his matin rings." But beside these household Dobbies, there are others of a more gloomy and unsocial nature, that keep... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - Počet stránok 1172
...flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-laborers could not end: Then lies him down the lubber fend. .` 0 doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. (1. 105-1 14) 24 Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married... | |
 | Paul Everett - 1996 - Počet stránok 122
...holiday revels at harvest-time, f Lines 110-12: 'Then lies him down the lubber fiend, / And streteh'd out all the chimney's length, / Basks at the fire his hairy strength'. According to the old superstition implicit in Milton's words,6 one is doomed to failure in love unless... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - Počet stránok 394
...the corn That ten day-labourers could not end 5 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, Ere the first cock his matin rings." ' The reader will observe that our simple ancestors... | |
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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,... 
