| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 334 pages
...whifpering winds loon lull'd afleep. Towred L ' ALLEGR O. 105 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, 120 With ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judt;= the prize Of wit, or arms, while both... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...creep, 115 -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, izo With llore of ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while... | |
| Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold; With ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of...or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom ail commend. SELECT POEMS. There let Hymen oft appear In faffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp,... | |
| John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, 1 1 5 By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Towred cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...weeds of peace high triumphs hold, 120 With store of kdies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, whil both contend To win... | |
| John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...evening. THEN is in this line a repetition of the firft THEN. " Then to the fpicy nut-brown And the bufy hum of men, Where throngs of knights, and barons bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, 120 "ale," v. 100. Afterwards, we have another THEN, with the fame fenfe and reference, "THEN to the well-trod... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...bed they creep, By whifpering 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 ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...flings, ,,.'..' Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they ereep, Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...knights and barons bold In weeds of Peace high triumphs bold, With store of ladies, whose bright eye* Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms,... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
...bed they 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 ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prixe Of wit, or arms, while... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...earlier feafon 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 of peace high triumphs hold ; With ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyei Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while... | |
| John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...they creep, 1 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... | |
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