 | William Bengo' Collyer - 1822 - 514 pages
...fancy warms into creation, and peoples the empty air with " Throngs of knights, and barons bold," And store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms." We have heard " the lances' shivering crash," — have seen the charging steeds — have beheld them... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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 ! With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...matin rings. Thus done the 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...barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and jndge the prize Of wit, or arms, while... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they ereep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered eities her of tea. Come here, my sweet landlady, pray how d'ye do ? Where is Cieily so eleanly, and peaee high triumphs hold, M'ith store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influenee, and judge the prize... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...he flings, 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...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...matin rings. Thus done the 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...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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...'—— throngs of Knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, And store of ladies with bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of...while both contend To win her grace whom all commend." Tournaments have been compared to the Olympic games of ancient Greece, but the circumstance of admitting... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Voltaire. MLXXIX. Done the tales, to bed we creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...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... | |
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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. 
