 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 480 pages
...creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd asleep. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds...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. There let Hymen... | |
 | Roy Daniells - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 343 pages
...blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds...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. Instead of... | |
 | David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 409 pages
...are transported to another species of hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds...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. To talk of the... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 284 pages
...giant, ongoing chivalric entertainment: "Tow'red Cities please us then / And the busy hum of men, / Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, / In weeds...Peace high triumphs hold, / With store of Ladies" (11. 1 12-20). L'Allegro's depiction sounds innocuous, especially since we know that Milton once planned... | |
 | Stephen B. Dobranski - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 245 pages
...1645 edition to separate the two clauses: Towred Cities please us then, And the busie humm of men, Where throngs of Knights and Barons bold, In weeds...triumphs hold, With store of Ladies, whose bright eies Rain influence, and judge the prise Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend To win her Grace, whom... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 130 pages
...them, that took his fancy ; as appears from his Towned 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 bcrg^it eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, wlhile both... | |
 | Joshua Scodel - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 367 pages
...trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes. Towered cities please us then, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds...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. (11.77-80,117-124)... | |
 | Sara Haslam - Literary Criticism & Collections - 2002 - 241 pages
...the mixture. Ford's epigraph is as follows: Towered cities please us then And the busy haunts of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With stores of ladies whose bright eyes Rain influence and judge the prize. It comes from the section in... | |
 | Donald Burrows, Rosemary Dunhill, James Harris - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 1212 pages
...some high lonely Tower. Populous2 Cities please us then, And the busie Humm of Men. Base Song There throngs of Knights and Barons bold In Weeds of Peace high Triumphs hold, With Ladies bright, whose5 peircing Eyes Rain influence, and judge the Pri2e Of Wit or Arms, while both... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1059 pages
...1 5 By whispering 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, 120 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. 
