 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 页
...the com, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fíend, And, stretch'd brother. And half the platform just doore he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, lo bed they creep, By whispering... | |
 | John Brand - 1841 - 356 页
...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 at the fire his hairy strength, And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." The following on the same suhject is from the... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1872 - 578 页
...cream-bowl's worth of farm-work — " 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." Thus both Classical and later antiquity combine in asserting the existence of dsemons or goblins whose... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 页
...the com, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd cts require great means of enterprise; Thou art unknown, unfriended, low of birth, A carp doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 页
...the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend. And, stretch'd and," she doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep. By whispering... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 页
...seems to have been indebted for his " drudging Goblin :" — • " the lunbar-fiemi, ' Who' stretch'd llusion to them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his le But the most common tradition with regard to the Brownie is, that, in point of size, he was similar... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 页
...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, Basks at 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 whisp'ring... | |
 | William James Linton - 1844 - 340 页
...flail hath thrashed 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 the fire his hairy strength ; And crop full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings." In Scotland, as well as England,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1845 - 412 页
...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...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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - 1845 - 424 页
...flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-laborers 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." 2. " But oh ! how altered was its sprightlier... | |
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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,... 
