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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. "
Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed - Page 311
by Laconics - 1829
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 29

Monthly literary register - 1810 - 730 pages
...these rustic fictions we are transporter! to another species of hum, Tewcr'd citiei please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds «f peace high triumphs hold, "With nan tflaJitt, whose bright eyes Rain infuaste, and judge the prize...
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The works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4

Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 456 pages
...in them, that took his fancy ; as appears from his Allegro-*— , Towred cities please us then And the busy hum of men, .•• Where throngs of knights...while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend. And when in the Penseroso he draws, by a fine contrivance, the same kind of image to sooth melancholy...
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The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Moral and political ...

Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 420 pages
...described in them, 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...both contend • To win her grace, whom all commend. And when in the Penseroso he draws, by a fine contrivance, the same kind of image to sooth melancholy...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 24

John Britton - Architecture - 1812 - 1070 pages
...tournaments, and all the paraphernalia of the Round Table. " Where throngs of knights and barons bold i In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Iteign influence, and judge the prize, Of wit, or arms, while both intend To win her grace whom all...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...tales, to bed they creep, 115 By whispering winds soon lullVl 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, 1^0 With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Bain influence, and judge the prize Of wit^ or arms, while...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...which brings us 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...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...which brings us 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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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 16, Part 1

John Britton, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 734 pages
...and, though of great strength, it seems to have been one of those hospitable mansions," Wbere Huongs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, than than one of " those rugged fortresses degtined solely for war." * Within its moat it contains...
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Anecdotes of Music, Historical and Biographical: In a Series of ..., Volume 1

Allatson Burgh - Music - 1814 - 526 pages
...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...both contend " To win her grace, whom all commend." L' Allegro. From the institution of these and similar exercises, and from the sentiments which they...
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Alicia de Lacy, by the author of 'The loyalists'.

Jane West - 1814 - 378 pages
...privacy of her father's castle, rather than in the presence of so many aspiring rivals. CHAP. VII. Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of lidies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To...
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