 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pagina’s
...readers) that I may tell you whither my younger feet wandered; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds...oath of every Knight, .that ' he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his hie, if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | 1820 - 608 pagina’s
...versification is infinitely above his models — the elegiac poets. It is " musical as Apollo's lute."* read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend, to the expcnce of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pagina’s
...as he himself told us, his " younger feet wandered,1' when he " betook him among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds...founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renowne over all Christendome." Apol. for Smectymn. Dunster. 358. ——or fabled since &c.] Some readers... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 372 pagina’s
...readers, thal 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 honor and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | 1826 - 548 pagina’s
...passage 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 befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pagina’s
...as he himself told us, " his younger feet wandered," when he " betook him among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn Cantos the deeds...founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renowne over all Christendome." Apol.for Smectym. p. 177. Prose Works, ed. Amst. 1698. DUNSTER. Ver.... | |
 | 1827 - 634 pagina’s
...passage 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...from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There 1 read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pagina’s
...passage 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 60 pagina’s
...passage 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...from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There 1 read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of... | |
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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. 
