| George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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... | |
| Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 80 pages
...Towered, cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, 120 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. 125 There let... | |
| John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. 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. Instead of... | |
| David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - English literature - 1992 - 428 pages
...are transported to another species of hum. 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. To talk of the... | |
| John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...creep, By whispering Windes soon luud asleep. Towred Cities please us then, And the busie humm of men, Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, In weeds of Peace high triumphs hold, With slore of Ladies, whose bright eies Rain influence, and judge the prise Of Wit, or Arms, while both... | |
| Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...giant, ongoing chivalric entertainment: "Tow'red Cities please us then / And the busy hum of men, / Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, / In weeds...Peace high triumphs hold, / With store of Ladies" (11. 1 12-20). L'Allegro's depiction sounds innocuous, especially since we know that Milton once planned... | |
| Stephen B. Dobranski - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 276 pages
...1645 edition to separate the two clauses: Towred Cities please us then, And the busie humm of men, Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, In weeds...triumphs hold, With store of Ladies, whose bright eies Rain influence, and judge the prise Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom... | |
| Thomas Warton - Chivalry in literature - 2001 - 144 pages
...them, that took his fancy ; as appears from his Towned cities .pleafe us then And the bufy hum of men,. Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With ftore of ladies, whofe bcrg^it eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, wlhile both... | |
| Joshua Scodel - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 388 pages
...trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Towered cities please us then, 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. (11.77-80,117-124)... | |
| Sara Haslam - Literary Criticism & Collections - 2002 - 262 pages
...the mixture. Ford's epigraph is as follows: Towered cities please us then And the busy haunts of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With stores of ladies whose bright eyes Rain influence and judge the prize. It comes from the section in... | |
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