 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...had 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. 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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1828 - 392 pages
...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, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Regardless of Mr. Gifford's... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...hath thrash'd the corn, Thet ten day-laborers 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, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 466 pages
...flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten 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. V. 101. Picture XXXI. receives still better light from the following lines in Paradise Lost, Book IX.... | |
 | Henry Fuseli - Art - 1831 - 464 pages
...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-lab Yers 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. V. 101. Picture XXXI. receives still better light from the following lines in Paradise Lost, Book IX.... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 428 pages
...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, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full, out of doors he flings Ere the first cock his matin rings." But, notwithstanding the... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1835 - 276 pages
...the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lays him down the lubber-fiend, And, etretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, .*nd .rop-full, out of door lie flings Ere the first cock his matin rings." But beside these household... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...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, Basks at 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... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
