 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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 barons bold. In weeds...store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear ». For here it is , that — « Throngs of knights and barons bold , In "weeds of...of ladies , whose bright eyes Rain influence , and judge the prize • Of wit or arms , while both contend To win her grace , whom all commend «. To... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds...store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Craig, Thomas, Sir, 1538-1608 - 1823 - 388 pages
...chivalrous display, which are well calculated to stimulate the poetical temperament ; situations " Where throngs of knights, and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With pomp, and feast, and revelry, And mask, and antique pageantry. Sir Thomas was, indeed, no youthful... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 364 pages
...I. to exhibit those splendid scenes in England, which had already glittered on the continent, "• Where throngs of knights and barons bold " In weeds...of ladies, whose bright eyes " Rain influence, and judge the prize :* • Among the articles of the Justes at Westminster in 1509, is the following item... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, e in writing, Under support of hem that lust it rede. O little boke ! judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...matin-song Of birda on every bough. T. Warton. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds...store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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 barons bold, In weeds...store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and jndge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...matin-song Of birds on every bough. T. Warton. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, 120 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1825 - 550 pages
...and executions ; but rather that of such an ancient hospitable mansion as is alluded to by Milton : ' Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold.1 " The castle and moat, according to an ancient survey, contained 5 acres 17f perches of ground.... | |
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Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. 
