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. Scenes of the Olden Time - Page 60by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...creep, By whifpering winds foon lull'd afleep. Tow'red 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 bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit,... | |
| John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...in this line a repetition of the firft THEN. " Then to the fpicy nut-brown And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights, and barons bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, 120 "ale," v. 100. Afterwards, we have another THEN, with the fame fenfe and reference,... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they ereep, Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of Peace high triumphs bold, With store of ladies, whose bright eye* Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit,... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
...creep, By whifp'ring winds foon lull'd afleep. Tow'red 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 bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prixe Of wit,... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...lead, To the tann'd hay-cock in the mead; Tow'red 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 bright eyei Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1790 - 346 pages
...the tales, to bed they creep, By whifp'ring winds foon lull'd afleep. Tow'red cities pleafe us then, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit,... | |
| Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pages
...creep, By whifpering winds foon lull'd afleep. Towred cities pler.fi us then, And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold;*. In weeds of peace high triumph hold, With ftore of ladies, whofe bright ey.es. Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both... | |
| John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...1 $ By whifpering winds foon lull'd afleep, Towred cities pleafe us then, And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, • The native belraan of the night, The bird that warned Peter of his fall, firft RINGS... | |
| 1793 - 376 pages
...By whifp'ring winds foon lull'd afleep. 116 Towred cities pleafe us then, And the bufie humm of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With flore of ladies, whofe bright eies 121 Rain influence, and judge the prife Of wit,... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...creep, By whifp'ring winds foon lull'd afleep. Towered cities pleafc 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 bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit,... | |
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