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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of Historical and Romantic ... - Page cv
by Walter Scott - 1821
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Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of ...

John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...And he, by friar's-lantern led, Tells how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn his cream bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy...ten day-lab'rers could not end; Then lies him down die lubbar fiend, And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength,...
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Remarks on Local Scenery & Manners in Scotland: During the Years ..., Volume 2

John Stoddart - Scotland - 1801 - 402 pages
...every thing but size, to Milton's " drudging goblin," who - " sweat, To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn, Which ten day-lab'rers could not end." The presence of the Brownie was believed to be .fortunate. He...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature

English literature - 1803 - 624 pages
...lubbar fiend, he loves to stretch himself by the fire, docs not drudge from the hope of recompense. On the contrary, so delicate is his attachment, that...disappearance for ever. We learn from Olaus Magnus, that spirits, somewhat similar in their operations to the brownie, were supposed to haunt the Swedish...
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The Poetical Works of William Collins

William Collins - English poetry - 1804 - 168 pages
...lubbar fiend, he loves to stretch himself by the flre*, he does not drudge from the hope of recompenct . On the contrary, so delicate is his attachment, that...reward, but particularly of food, infallibly occasions bis disappearance for evert. * ' —how the drudging goblin swet, To earn the cream-bowl, duly set...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...he by friar's lanthorn led ; Tells how the drudging Goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set , W'hen in one night , ere glimpse of morn , His shadowy flail 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...
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The Works of Walter Scott, Esq, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1806 - 478 pages
...And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, fur the first cock his matin rings. L'Allegra. recompence. On the contrary, so delicate is his attachment, that...of food, infallibly occasions his disappearance for everf. We learn from Olaus Magnus, that spirits, somewhat similar in their operations to the Brownie,...
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Poetical Works

Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...he does not drudge from the hope of recompence. On the contrary, so delicate is hU attachment, lhat the offer of reward, but particularly of food, infallibly occasions his disappearance for ever.§ * * — how the drudging goblin sweat, To earn the cream-bowl, duly set ; _• "When, in one night,...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...And he, by friar's lanthorn led, Tells how the drudging Gcblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubber fiend, And strech'd out all the chimney's...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 4

Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...And he, by friar's lantern led: Tells how the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set; When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lays him down the lubber fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's...
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 29

Monthly literary register - 1810 - 730 pages
...he, by friar's lanthern led : Tellsliow the drudging goblin sweat To earn his cream-bowl duly set ; When in one night, ere glimpse of morn. His shadowy flail had thresh 'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; 'i hca I»Y» him down the luU/ci fiend,...
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