| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...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 Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum (The victor cry'd), the glorious prize is mine ! While fish in streams, or birds delight in store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| George Miller - Europe - 1820 - 624 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 or arms, while both contend... | |
| William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...earlier season lead, To the tann'd hayccck 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 store of ladies whose bright eyes • • Rain influence, and judge the prize.... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 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 store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or... | |
| Peter Bayley Williams - Caernarfon (Wales) - 1821 - 224 pages
...subjects, in imitation of our Hero Arthur, held a round table, and celebrated it with dance and tournament, Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, In weeds of Peace, high triumphs hold ; With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Reign influence, and jndge the prize Of wit or arms, while both... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...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 contend... | |
| sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...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 peace , high triumphs hold, With store of ladies , whose bright eyes Rain influence , and judge the prize • Of wit or arms , while... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - Craig, Thomas, Sir, 1538-1608 - 1823 - 388 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... | |
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