 Next (for hear me out now, 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 of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 1761834Full view - About this book
 | William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 622 pages
...character. A remarkable passage to this effect we quote from his account of his youth. ' I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1835 - 484 pages
...character. A remarkable passage to this effect, we quote from his account of his youth. "I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1835 - 592 pages
...contrived to obliterate, even in him, some expressions of the modesty of nature. Milton says that "the lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood, proved to him, by the price which they set upon chastity, so many incitements to the love and stedfast... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...that he intended to make Prince Arthur the hero of his epic. It jet remains for modem minstrel " to recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings." Spencer's " continued allegory or darke conceit," leaves the field still open. Blackmore promised what... | |
 | 1839 - 636 pages
...Next, for hear me out now, readers, that I may tell ye whither my young feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense... | |
 | 1839 - 598 pages
...Next, for hear me out now, readers, that I mny tell ye whither my young feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1840 - 566 pages
...nourishing within him that sublime virtue which made him a glory to humanity. ' I betook myself,' says he, ' among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from thence had in renown all over christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should... | |
 | William Howitt - 1840 - 548 pages
...afterwards achieved ! Having imbued himself with classical knowledge — " Next/' he adds, " I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood, so that even those books proved to me so many enticements to the love and steadfast observation of... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...Next (for hear me out now, readers) that I may tell ye whither my young feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded hy our victorious kings, and from hence held in renown all over Christendom. There I read it in the... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...the next paragraph he proceeds—" That I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount,...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all christendom. . . . From the laureate fraternity of poets, riper years, and the ceaseless round... | |
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