 Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings; Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now,— instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4501808Full view - About this book
 | 1821 - 598 pages
...had cast aside her indignant harp, to which every lofty emotion of the heart once replied, ' To caper nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.' From this disgrace she was rescued by the stem and haughty Piedmontese ; whose merits it is extremely... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 602 pages
...had cast aside her indignant harp, to which every lofty emotion of the heart once replied, ' To caper nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.' From this disgrace she was rescued by the stem and haughty Piedmontese ; whose merits it is extremely... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 526 pages
...MALONE. « Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful MEASURES. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, — instead of mounting EAREED STEEDS, &c.] So, in The Tragical Life and Death of King Richard the Third, which is one of the... | |
 | 1822 - 600 pages
...changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marchings to delightful measures. Grim-visaged War has smoothed his wrinkled front ; And now, instead of mounting...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute." Now, can any reader peruse the above passage, and reflect for a moment on the character and situation... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marchings to delightful measures. Grim.visaged War has smoothed his wrinkled front ; And now, instead of mounting...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute." Now, can any reader peruse the above passage, and reflect for a mo • ment on the character and situation... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marchings to delightful measures. Grim-visaged War has smoothed his wrinkled front ; And now, instead of mounting...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute." Now, can any reader peruse the above passage, and reflect for a moment on the character and situation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 60 pages
...are changed to merry meetings ; Our dreadful marches to delightful measures : Urim-visag'd War has smooth'd his wrinkled front. And now, instead of mounting...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute : But I, that am not made for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an am'rous looking-glass : I, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1823 - 442 pages
...measures.i Grim-visag'd War hath smooth'd his wrinkled front ; And now, — instead of mounted barbed2 steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, — that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass ; I,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 320 pages
...And now,—instead of mounting barbed steeds,*' To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,— lie capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I,—that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Vor made to court an amorous looking-glass ; I, that... | |
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