 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.  Cowley, Denham, Milton - Page 475edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd to sleep. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Bain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lulFd to sleep, Tower'd cities please us then, And. the busy hum of...hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence,6 and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.... | |
 | Edward Copleston, William James Copleston - Bishops - 1851 - 438 pages
...has been too long abused. From .these rustic fictions we are transported to another species of hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of...triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Sain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.... | |
 | Edward Copleston, William James Copleston - Bishops - 1851 - 374 pages
...too long abused. From these rustic fictions we are transported to another species of hum. Tower' d cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Sain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.... | |
 | 1851 - 268 pages
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 | Torquato Tasso - 1851 - 532 pages
...and beauty ; to take his envied station, as the first poet of Italy and the world. " Where th-ongs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high...bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize." In this pursuit there must have been occasional disappointment ; and disappointment to Tasso was misery.... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of doore he flings, Ere liam win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; m L.ALLEGRO. An!, crop- full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales,...the prize » Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, w By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities...barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, ra With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...cities please us then,4 And the busy hum of men : Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds5 of Peace, high triumphs hold ; With store of ladies,...judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen6 oft appear • In saffron robe, with taper clear,... | |
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