 | 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...while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. Such were the entertainments, which not the historian of chivalry, but * the historian of the Roman... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-laborers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of d<jors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus...contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask,... | |
 | 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...while both contend To win her grace , whom all commend «. To own the truth, it seems as if Beanie , though an enlightened and excellent man , had a little... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With masque... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...hath thresh'd the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar-fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered or it was nigh night, And put all thnt I had sene...support of hem that lust it rede. O little boke ! let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And Pomp, and Feast, and Revelry, With Mask... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...allusion and metaphor in PL v. 7. The shrill matin-song Of birda on every bough. T. Warton. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, 119 Where throngt of knights and barons bold... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...could not end ; Then lies him down the lubbar fiend, And, stretch'd out all the chimney's leftgth, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full,...contend To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And Pomp, and Feast, and Revelry, With Mask,... | |
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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. There let Hymen oft appear... 
