 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 pagina’s
...readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 pagina’s
...readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pagina’s
...to this effect, we quote from his account of his youth ; — " I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount, in solemn cantos, the...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood or of his life, if it so befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 pagina’s
...whieh reeount in solema eantos the deeds of knighthood founded hy oar vietorious kings, and from henee had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his hest hlood, or of his life, if it so hefel him, the honour and ehastity of virgin or... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 544 pagina’s
...feet wander'd ; I betook me among thofe lofty Fables and Romances, which recount in folemne canto's the deeds of Knighthood founded by our victorious Kings ; and from hence had in renowne over all Chriftendome. There I read it in the oath of every Knight, that he mould defend to... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pagina’s
...proceeds—" That I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount, in solemn cantos, the...and from hence had in renown over all christendom. . . . From the laureate fraternity of poets, riper years, and the ceaseless round of studying and reading,... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 518 pagina’s
...readers, that I may tell whither my younger feet wandered, — I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds...from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There 1 read, in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or even... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 510 pagina’s
...cantos the deeds of knighthood, founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood the honour and chastity of virgin or matron. We may observe that Milton,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pagina’s
...I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered; I betook me among those lofty fable« and romance?, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious king?, and from hence hod in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight,... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pagina’s
...the Apology for Smectymnuus, on which the critics seem to rest. I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood, founded bv our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over Christendom. There I read it in the... | |
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I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings and from hence had in renown over all Christendom. 
