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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. "
Moral and political dialogues: being the substance of several conversations ... - Page 254
by Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1765
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Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel, and the Great War

Sara Haslam - Literary Criticism & Collections - 2002 - 262 pages
...fantasy to 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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Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature

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 of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize, Of wit, or arms, while both...
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Music and Theatre in Handel's World: The Family Papers of James Harris, 1732 ...

Donald Burrows, Rosemary Dunhill, James Harris - Music - 2002 - 1268 pages
...some high lonely Tower. Populous2 Cities please us then, And the busie Humm of Men. Base Song There throngs of Knights and Barons bold In Weeds of Peace high Triumphs hold, With Ladies bright, whose5 peircing Eyes Rain influence, and judge the Pri2e Of Wit or Arms, while both...
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...they creep, 1 1 5 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, 120 With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of Wit, or Arms, while...
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The Major Works

John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold. In weeds of peace high triumphs hold,0 no With store of ladies, whose bright eyes0 Rain influence, and judge the pri2e0 Of wit, or...
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Bulfinch's Medieval Mythology: The Age of Chivalry

Thomas Bulfinch - Social Science - 2004 - 306 pages
...BATTI-E OF OTTERBOURNE .............. a65 XXXVH1. EDWARD THE BIACK PRINCE ................ a7a INUEX 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. Mil TON. THOMAS BULFINCH (1796-1867l...
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Cotman in the North: Watercolours of Durham and Yorkshire

David Hill, John Sell Cotman - Art - 2005 - 208 pages
...bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered 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.45 - ,20. 'Towered cities please...
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L' Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas

John Milton - 2006 - 66 pages
...bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered 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...
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L' Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas

John Milton - Fiction - 2006 - 94 pages
...bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Towered 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...
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The Wandering Path

Carlo Ardito - Businessmen - 2007 - 489 pages
...incongruously he recalled some lines from a Milton poem: Towered Cities please us then And the busie humm of men Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, In weeds of Peace high triumphs hold... Was he really 'literary', as Pete Jameson had suggested, just because he happened to enjoy poetry and...
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