 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 - Strana 171podľa John Milton - 1853Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | John Milton - 1834 - Počet stránok 498
...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, no And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, us By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. no lubber] ' There is a pretty tale of a witch that had... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - Počet stránok 428
...shadowy flale hath thresh'd the corn, Then ten day-lah'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length,...doors he flings Ere the first cock his matin rings." But, notwithstanding the fancied services of this frolic loving elf, it appears from the following... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - Počet stránok 432
...corn, Then ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out nil the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy...doors he flings Ere the first cock his matin rings." But, notwithstanding the fancied services of this frolic loving elf, it appears from the following... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - Počet stránok 390
...shadowy flale hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend. And stretch'd out all the chimney's length,...the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of dores he flings, Ere the first cock his mattin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring... | |
 | 1837 - Počet stránok 538
...the corn, That ten day labourers could not end ; Then lies him down (lie lubbar fiend, And stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full, out of door he flings Kre the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the talus, to 1к"1 they creep, By whispering... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - Počet stránok 496
...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, no And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, us By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. no lubber] ' There is a pretty tale of a witch that had... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - Počet stránok 496
...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, 110 And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, ns By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. no lubber] ' There is a pretty tale of a witch that had... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - Počet stránok 372
...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,...the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of door he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering... | |
 | William Bennet (poet.) - 1840 - Počet stránok 278
...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 out of door be flings. Ere the first cock his matin rings." Sir Walter Scott says, " tradition has ascribed... | |
 | John Brand - 1841 - Počet stránok 356
...flale hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-lah'rers could not end; Then lays him down the luhhar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." The following on the same suhject is from the " Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of... | |
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