| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep, Tower*d cities please ns then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumph hold, With store of ladies, whos& bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or... | |
| Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...entertainment in the Townscene, the time is irrevocably fixed to day. Let us view the passage, then : Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold ; [1800V| With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms,... | |
| Monthly literary register - 1810 - 730 pages
...fictions we are transporter! to another species of hum, Tewcr'd citiei please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds «f peace high triumphs hold, "With nan tflaJitt, whose bright eyes Rain infuaste, and judge the prize... | |
| Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...that took his fancy ; as appears from his Allegro-*— , 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... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...brings us through a complete circuit of the moon from Une 69. Toured 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... | |
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