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 - Seite 475herausgegeben von - 1810Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Enos Bronson - 1810 - 462 Seiten
...has been too long abused. From these rustick fictions we are transported to another species cf hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of...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 - 1810 - 874 Seiten
...has been too long Abused. I'rom these rustick fictions we are transported to another ^ecies 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.... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1811 - 420 Seiten
...Chivalry, but the manners described in them, that took his fancy; as appears from his Allegro — ' Towred cities please us then And the busy hum of men, Where...the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend • To win her grace, whom all commend. And when in the Penseroso he draws, by a fine contrivance, the same... | |
| Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 456 Seiten
...but the manners described in them, that took his fancy ; as appears from his Allegro-*— , Towred cities please us then And the busy hum of men, .••...judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. And when in the Penseroso he draws, by a fine contrivance, the same... | |
| Allatson Burgh - 1814 - 526 Seiten
...courtesy of chivalry , it is the practice of heralds to blazon arms for unmarried ladies in a lozenge. " Where throngs of knights and barons bold, " In weeds...the prize " Of wit, or arms, while both contend " To win her grace, whom all commend." L' Allegro. From the institution of these and similar exercises,... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 Seiten
...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men ; Where...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... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...chimney's length. Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales,...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... | |
| George Miller - 1820 - 624 Seiten
...their mental acquirements, agreeably to the description which Milton has given of these solemnities : Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds...judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. Such were the entertainments, which not the historian of chivalry,... | |
| 1822 - 284 Seiten
...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 done the tales,...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... | |
| sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 Seiten
...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...the prize • Of wit or arms , while both contend To win her grace , whom all commend «. To own the truth, it seems as if Beanie , though an enlightened... | |
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