| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...bed they crer p, Bv whisp'iihg, winds soon lull'd asleep. Towred cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, 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... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...bed they creep, By whispering 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 of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...bed they creep, By whisp'ring 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 of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose brig hteyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...bed they creep, By wliisp'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 of peace high trinmphs hold, With store of ladies whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...fictions we 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 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... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...fictions we are transported to another species cf hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influenccf and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend... | |
| John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...bed they 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 of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...bed they 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 of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...bed they 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 of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...admirable adaptation to express the first effect upon the ear, of a scene, however late the hour, " Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold ; With store of Ladies"— . The busy bee may close his labours with the day : but Man, intent on pleasure,... | |
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