 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1834 - 698 pages
...when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid : The latch moved up, when who should first come in, But, in his proper person, — Lubbcrkin ! " The country youths, of both sexes, adopt the following method of ascertaining whether... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...wheel I turn'd, and sung a ballad new, While from the spindle I the fleeces drew ; The latch mov'd better learn'd to act their parts, Receive the news in doleful dumps : The D I broke my yarn, surpris'd the sight to see ; Sure sign that he would break hie word with me. Eiboons... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...My wheel I tum'd, and sung a ballad new, While from the spindle I the fleeces drew ; The latch mov'd uide me through the dreadful shade. Though in a bare and rugged way. Through I broke my yarn, surpris'd the sight to see ; Sure sign that he would break his word with me. Eftsoons... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 pages
...I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid ; — The latch moved up, when who should first come in, But, in his proper person, — Lubberkin !" Common Errors in English Composition, An extract from a Few Grammar, preparing for the Press. THERE... | |
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...Shakespeare is best illustrated by the following passage from Browne's Britannia's Pastorals, p. 71, which seems to have escaped the notice of all writers...subject: " The peascod greene, oft with no little toyle He'd seek for in the fattest fertil'st soile, And rend it from the stalke to bring it to her, And in... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...My wheel I tum'd, and sung a ballad new, While from the spindle I the fleeces drew; The latch mov'd . The two principles of man, self-love and reason, both I broke my yarn, surpris'd the sight to see ; Sure sign that he would break his word with me. Eflsoons... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1854 - 560 pages
...when I cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid ; The latch mov'd up, when who should first come in, But in his proper person, — Lubberkin !" But perhaps the passage in Shakespeare is best illustrated by the following passage from Browne's Britannia's Pastorals,... | |
 | John Gay - 1854 - 314 pages
...wheel I turn'd, and sung a ballad new, While from the spindle I the fleeces drew ; The latch mov'd up, when who should first come in, But, in his proper person, — Lubberkin ! I broke my yarn, surpris'd the sight to see, Sure sign that he would break his word with me. Eftsoons... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 478 pages
...sweetheart.' . . . . ' Winter-time for shoeing, peascod-time for wooing,' is an old proverb in a MS Devon. Gl. But perhaps the allusion in Shakespeare is best illustrated by the following passage in Browne's Britannia's Pastorals [B. ii, Song 3, 11. 93-96, ed. Hazlitt — ap. Wright] : ' The peascod... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 230 pages
...when cropp'd, I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in sec'et laid; The latch 1nov'd up, when who should first come in But, in his proper person, Lubberkin." Cf. Browne, Brittania's Pastorals: "The peascod greene oft with no little toyle Hee'd seeke lor in... | |
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As peascods once I pluck'd, I chanced to see One that was closely fill'd with three times three, Which when I cropp'd I safely home convey'd, And o'er the door the spell in secret laid... 
