 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...tales, to bed they creep, By wliisp'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 trinmphs hold, With store of ladies whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...tales, to bed 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...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,... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...these rustick fictions we are transported to another species of hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and...both contend • To win her grace whom all commend. To talk of the bright eyes of ladies, judging the prize of wit, is, indeed- with the poets, a legitimate... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...tales, to bed 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...judge 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 - 1810 - 540 pages
...tales, to bed 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...judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With... | |
 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...these rustick fictions we are transported to another species cf hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and...hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influenccf and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...these rustick fictions we are transported to another ^ecies of hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and...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.... | |
 | Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...admirable adaptation to express the first effect upon the ear, of a scene, however late the hour, " Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds...peace, high triumphs hold ; With store of Ladies"— . The busy bee may close his labours with the day : but Man, intent on pleasure, holds another languageRigour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep, Tower*d cities please ns 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, whos& bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or... | |
 | Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...entertainment in the Townscene, the time is irrevocably fixed to day. Let us view the passage, then : Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold ; [1800V| With store of Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms,... | |
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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. 
