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" When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy 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, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full... "
L'allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas - Page 4
by John Milton - 1900 - 130 pages
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...thresh'd the corn That ten day-lab'rers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And stretch'd this world ther n'as. Tiie crop full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

1826 - 310 pages
...could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's leftgth, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full,...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...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, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...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...
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The Fairy Mythology, Volume 2

Thomas Keightley - 1828 - 392 pages
...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...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Regardless of Mr. Gifford's sneer at " those who may undertake the unprofitable drudgery of tracing...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...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...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and...
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The life and writings of Henry Fuseli, the former written and the ..., Volume 1

Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 466 pages
...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....
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The life of Henry Fuseli

Henry Fuseli - 1831 - 472 pages
...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....
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...flail had 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. Basks...doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Tims done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...that was called Lob-lye-by-the-Jlre.' Knight of the B. Pestle, act iii. sc. 1. Warton. VOL. III. L Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full...he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus clone the tales, to bed they creep, 113 By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please...
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