 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 648 ページ
...Then lies him down the lubbar fiend. And slretch'd out all the chimney's length, l'ij ! -' at the lire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his mattin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 ページ
...could not end ; Then lies him down the lulib.iv fiend, And, stretch'dout all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of doors he flings, F.re the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon... | |
 | William Collins - 1811 - 162 ページ
...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 be flings, E'er the first cock his matin rings. L'AUtgro. 4 When the menials in a Scottish family protracted... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 456 ページ
...could not end ; ' Then lies him down the lubber fiend, ' Arijjjstretch'd out all the chimneys length, ' Basks at the fire his hairy strength, ' And crop-full out of doors he flings, ' Ere the first cock his matins rings." The reader will observe that our simple ancestors had reduced all these whimsies to... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 ページ
...could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, 110 And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full...matin rings, Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, 115 JBy whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. __.._„ -___---,-._ - -. -I-, . T 110. The lubbar-fiend... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 ページ
...could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, 1 10 And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full...matin rings, Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, 115 By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. 110. The lubbar-fiend would seem clearly to ~be referable... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 ページ
...And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Masks 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, 115 By whispering winds soon lullVl asleep. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 ページ
...lab'rers 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 crop-full...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of nun, Where... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 ページ
...all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of door he (lings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the...they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men ; Where throngs of knights and barons bold In... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 ページ
...him down the lubber fiend ; And, stretch'd out at the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his airy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.' V Allegro. ' Then wake, (for well thou canst,) that wondrous lay, How, while around the thoughtless... | |
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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... 
