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...repeated without having any very clear idea to what they allude, but you have opened my eyes : — ' Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds...judge the prize Of wit, or arms; while both contend To win her grace whom all commend." I should like now to read some description of those grand amusements...

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...matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep, By whispering winds soon lull'd to sleep. Tow'red cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Bain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all...

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...has been too long abused. From .these rustic fictions we are transported to another species of hum. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of...triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Sain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend....

...too long abused. From these rustic fictions we are transported to another species of hum. Tower' d cities please us then, And the busy hum of men, Where...triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Sain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend....

...and beauty ; to take his envied station, as the first poet of Italy and the world. " Where th-ongs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high...bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize." In this pursuit there must have been occasional disappointment ; and disappointment to Tasso was misery....

...chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of doore he flings, Ere liam win her grace, whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And...