 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 454 pages
...is the sentimentalism of gallantry, caparisoned for action, and impatient to enter the burning list, 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. This extravagant passion had... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 364 pages
...Whitaker has observed, cannot but lay strong hold on the imagination, and carry it back to the scenes Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold. * Hist. of Craven, p. 279. " Item, one kyrtle of cremesyn velvett, lyned with whyte sarsenet, and a... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 358 pages
...has observed, cannot but lay strong hold on the imagination, and carry it back to the scenes Whore throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold. • Hist, of Craven, p. 279. " Item, one kyrtle of cremesyn velvett, lyned with whyte sarsenet, and... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...to bed we creep, By whisp"ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, ^nd 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 Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...to bed we 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 bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where- throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace high triumph hold ; With siore of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 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 Milton - 1831 - 348 pages
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 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...they creep, 113 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, ico With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while... | |
 | George Miller - 1832 - 518 pages
...their mental acquirements, agreeably to the description which Milton has given of these solemnities: ' 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 01 arms, while both contend... | |
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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. 
