 Our bruised arms hung up for monuments; Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful...  Richard III. Henry VIII. Troilus - Page 19by William Shakespeare - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - English poetry - 1801 - 368 pages
...measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front ; And now, — instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,...a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. SHAKSPEARE. Infancy. On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st, while all... | |
 | 1808 - 556 pages
...clouds, ' &c. Grim-visag'd War hath smooth'd his wrinkled front ; And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,...a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. ' The question, says Mr Douce, is, who capers ? Now, we do verily believe, that no one but a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 426 pages
...measures. ' Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front ; And now, — instead of mounting barbed1 steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,...a 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 568 pages
...measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now,—instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,—...a 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;... | |
 | John Howe Baron Chedworth - 1805 - 392 pages
...measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front ; And now, — instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,...a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. " The cities of Italy resounded with the noise " of drinking and dancing ; the spoils of victory... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 510 pages
...measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now, — instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,...a 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1807 - 472 pages
...measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front; And now,—instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,—...a 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;... | |
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 418 pages
...delightful measures : Grim-visag'd war has smooth'd his wrinkled front, And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,...a 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...delightful measures : Grim-visag'd war has smooth'd his wrinkled front, And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,...a 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,... | |
 | 1811 - 418 pages
...deformity, and his derision of the fripperies of " this piping time of peace." Instead of mounting' barbed steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,...a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Never were features and voice more happily associated than Mr. Cooke's for the production of... | |
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