 | 1828 - 562 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 deeds...and from hence had in renown over all Christendom. Therol read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood,... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1828 - 572 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 deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, ami from hence had in renowu over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that... | |
 | 1829 - 440 pagina’s
...the introduction to his ' Apology for Smectymnuus.' 'I betook me,' says he, '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 honor and chastity of virgin or matron... | |
 | 1829 - 434 pagina’s
...the introduction to his ' Apology for Smectymnuus.' 'I betook me,' says he, '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 honor and chastity of virgin or matron... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 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 HO befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 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... | |
 | 1834 - 560 pagina’s
...predilection to love the laureat fraternity of poets, and with young feet to wander ' among those lofty fables and romances, which ' recount in solemn cantos the...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over ' Christendom.' But what shall we say to John Wesley — the missionary of the then neglected... | |
 | 1839 - 876 pagina’s
...Civilization in Europe. t " I read it in the oath ofevery true knight, that ho should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befel him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue that sure... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 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 honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 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 deeds...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... | |
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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. 
