 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...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 they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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 Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength. And crop full out of doors he flings, Ere the first ost 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 - 468 pages
...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 they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. In the old Moralities, it was customary to introduce the devil... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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 they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...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 they creep, 115 By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. In the old Moralities, it was customary to introduce the... | |
 | English letters - 1826 - 638 pages
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 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...leftgth, 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 they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...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 they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | John Milton - 1831 - 348 pages
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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... 
