 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 534 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 he flings, Ere the first cock his mattin rings. L' Allegro. * It is told of a Brownie, who haunted a Border family, now extinct, that... | |
 | Scottish border - 1821 - 718 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 he flings, Ere the first cock his mattin rings. L' Allegro. When the menials in a Scottish family protracted their vigils wound the kitchen... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 532 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 he flings, Ere the first eock his mattin rings. L' Allegro. When the menials in a Scottish family protracted their vigils around... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 ページ
...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 us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 ページ
...bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Towered«eities please us then, * And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and baror.s bold, In weeds of peace high triumph hold ; With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 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...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. In the old Moralities, it was customary to introduce the devil... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 ページ
...could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, no 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. In the old Moralities, it was customary to introduce the... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 ページ
...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 :... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 ページ
...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 leve of hire. And she gon hie After hem as whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 ページ
...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... | |
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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... 
