 | Classical poetry - 1822
...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...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. There let Hymen... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822
...forests, and enchantments drear, Where more is meant than meets the ear ». For here it is , that — « Throngs of knights and barons bold , In "weeds of...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 «. To... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 346 pages
...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...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. There let Hymen... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Craig, Thomas, Sir, 1538-1608 - 1823 - 362 pages
...chivalrous display, which are well calculated to stimulate the poetical temperament ; situations " Where throngs of knights, and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With pomp, and feast, and revelry, And mask, and antique pageantry. Sir Thomas was, indeed, no youthful... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 822 pages
...creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, e in writing, Under support of hem that lust it rede. O little boke ! judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen... | |
 | British anthology - 1824
...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...store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and jndge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824
...I. to exhibit those splendid scenes in England, which had already glittered on the continent, "• Where throngs of knights and barons bold " In weeds...of ladies, whose bright eyes " Rain influence, and judge the prize :* • Among the articles of the Justes at Westminster in 1509, is the following item... | |
 | John Milton - 1824
...matin-song Of birda on every bough. T. Warton. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds...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. There let Hymen... | |
 | John Milton - 1824
...matin-song Of birds on every bough. T. Warton. 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... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1825
...and executions ; but rather that of such an ancient hospitable mansion as is alluded to by Milton : ' Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold.1 " The castle and moat, according to an ancient survey, contained 5 acres 17f perches of ground.... | |
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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. 
