 | 1810 - 1018 pages
...barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store ofladies, whose bright eyes Rain infiaence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. To talk of the bright eyes ofladies, judg-. ing the prize of wit, is, in-n-deed, with the poets, a... | |
 | Helen Maria Williams - 1796 - 472 pages
...tournaments, " 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 ;" might have found its prototype. Its external magnificence feemed fitted to defy all ordinary force,... | |
 | 1802 - 700 pages
...indeed, thofe authors made a faint of; but faints and knights were all that polfefled men's minds — « With ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyes * Rain influence and judge the prize * In wit or arms, whiUt all contend *To win her grace whom all commend,' " The peers were twelve, becaufe... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 pages
...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 ....grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, ' With mask and antique pageantry,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With (lore of ladies whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge...grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In fitffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feaft, and revelry, With rr.aflc and antique. pageantry,... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With ftore ot ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge...grace, whom all commend. There let HYMEN oft appear In fafFron robe, and taper clear, And pomp, and feaft, and revelry, With mafk, and antique pageantry... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1801 - 1008 pages
...indeed, thofe authors made a faint of; but faints and knights were all that poflcfled mens minds — With ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence and judge the prize, In wit or arms, whilft all contend To win her grace whom all commend. The peers were twelve, becaufe... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...men/ Where throngs of knights and barons bo!8, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, _ ; With- store of ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend -rtt To win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear ' In saffron robe, and taper clear,... | |
 | Thomas Warton - 1802 - 396 pages
...Allegro, ver. 1 19 : Where throngs of knights and barons bold In <weeis of peace high triumphs bold, With ftore of ladies, whofe bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit and arms, &c. And pomp and feaft and revelry With mafk and antique pageantry. The epithet " trophied,"... | |
 | Peter Pindar - 1804 - 180 pages
...throngs of knights and barons bolu In weeds of peace high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, wliosc bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of...grace, whom all commend. There let HYMEN oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry,... | |
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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. 
