 | Collection - 1856 - 120 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. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men ; Where... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cook his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 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 lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | William Dowling - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 412 pages
...chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of door 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. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1859 - 104 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 whispering winds soon lull'd to sleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Tarring, West, Eng. (Parish) - 1860 - 526 pages
...not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-jiend, And ftretched out all the chimney's length Banes at the fire his hairy ftrength, And crop-full out of doors he flings Ere the firft cock his matin fings.' " " Very likely Milton knew the connexion between lubber and fiend," was the Old Vicar's reply... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Tarring, West, Eng. (Parish) - 1860 - 530 pages
...not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-jiend, And ftrerched out all the chimney's length Bafks at the fire his hairy ftrength, And crop-full out of doors he flings Ere the firft cock his matin fings.' " " Very likely Milton knew the connexion between lubber and fiend," was the Old Vicar's reply... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 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, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; \\v 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... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first 's loud clangor 25 Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of a 115 By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men,... | |
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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... 
