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. Specimens of the Early English Poets - Seite 262von George Ellis - 1790 - 323 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1789 - 484 Seiten
...creep, By whifp'ring winds foon lull'd afleep. Tow'red cities pleafe us then, And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds...ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prixe Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend, > There let Hymen oft... | |
| William Scott - 1789 - 416 Seiten
...lead, To the tann'd hay-cock in the mead; Tow'red cities pleafe us then, • And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds...triumphs hold ; With ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyei Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom... | |
| John Milton - 1791 - 668 Seiten
...1 $ By whifpering winds foon lull'd afleep, Towred cities pleafe us then, And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, • The native belraan of the night, The bird that warned Peter of his fall, firft RINGS HIS SILVER... | |
| Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 Seiten
...creep, By whifpering winds foon lull'd afleep. Towred cities pler.fi us then, And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold;*. In weeds of peace high triumph hold, With ftore of ladies, whofe bright ey.es. Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit... | |
| Samuel Parr - 1792 - 244 Seiten
...corruption might gradually find its way to rapacious* courtezans, to imperious matrons, and s That ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit and arms — At all events, the corruption which now circulates among the members of parliament, would... | |
| 1793 - 376 Seiten
...By whifp'ring winds foon lull'd afleep. 116 Towred cities pleafe us then, And the bufie humm of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With flore of ladies, whofe bright eies 121 Rain influence, and judge the prife Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1789 - 488 Seiten
...creep, By whifp'ring winds foon lull'd afleep, Tow'red cities pleafe us then, And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With flore of ladies, wbofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| Helen Maria Williams - 1796 - 472 Seiten
...to their enmity or alliance ; or in days of feftival, whatever we read of tilts and tournaments, " Where throngs of knights, and barons bold, " In weeds...Rain influence, and judge the prize " Of wit, or arms ;" might have found its prototype. Its external magnificence feemed fitted to defy all ordinary force,... | |
| 1810 - 1018 Seiten
...barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store ofladies, whose bright eyes Rain infiaence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. To talk of the bright eyes ofladies, judg-. ing the prize of wit, is, in-n-deed, with the poets, a... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 Seiten
...creep, By whifp'rins; winds toon lull d ailecp. Tow1 red cities plcafe us then, And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With ftorc of ladies, whole bright eye» Rain influence, apd judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| |