 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 - Page 475by Samuel Johnson - 1810Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 124 pages
...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, ,...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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 376 pages
...mattin rings. Thus done the tales , to bed they creep , By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red cities please us then , And the busy, hum of men ,...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 ;... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 380 pages
...cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeda of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies,...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 cleaV, And... | |
 | John Milton - 1807
...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they crer p, Bv whisp'iihg, winds soon lull'd asleep. Towred 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 Pomp,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 400 pages
...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tow'red 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... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809
...he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whisp'ring winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us...peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose brig hteyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace,... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810
...chimney's length, JBasks 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810
...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 There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810
...has been too long abused. From these rustick fictions we are transported to another species of hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of...the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend • To win her grace whom all commend. To talk of the bright eyes of ladies, judging the prize of wit, is,... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 295 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...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 pomp,... | |
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