| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...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 barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Sain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend... | |
| John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...they creep, By whisp'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 triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1810 - 462 pages
...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 barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influenccf and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend... | |
| 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 of peace, high triumphs hold ; With store of Ladies"— . The busy bee may close his labours with the day : but Man, intent on pleasure,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...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,... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1811 - 394 pages
...that took his fancy ; as appears from his Allegro — Towred cities please us then And the busy hum of men, 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... | |
| Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...that took his fancy ; as appears from his Allegro-*— , Towred cities please us then And the busy hum of men, .•• 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... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...through a complete circuit of the moon from Une 69. Toured cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, 120 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while... | |
| Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...through a complete circuit of the moon from line 69Tow'rcd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold ! ^ In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, 120 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while... | |
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