 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
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 pages
...feet wandered," when he " betook him among thofe lofty fables and romances, which recount in folemn Cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renowne over all Chriftendome." Apol. for Smeftyw. p. 177. Profe Workt, ed. Amft. 1698. DUSSTER. Ver.... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1814 - 424 pages
...poet yet more august. "I will tell you," says Milton, " whither my younger feet wandered : I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood." A change introduced in the customs and mode of life among the inhabitants of Europe, as it was the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...Next (for hear me out now, readers) that I may tell you 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. There I read it in the oath of every Knight, .that ' he should defend to the... | |
 | 1820 - 608 pages
...equal Xenopbon." — Apology /or Strtectymnus, " I betook me," he continues in the same Apology, " to among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood foundtd by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over Christendom. Tlisr» hod been... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 400 pages
...will tell you," says he in his apology for Smectymnus, " whither my young feet wandered. I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of chivalry." Prose Works, vol. i, p. 224. imagination, as Fleet Street: in criticising Lord Lyttleton's... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...but rove at times where, as he himself told us, his " younger feet wandered," when he " betook him among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...in his Apology for Smeetymnuus, " I may tell you " whither my younger feet wan" dered : I betook me among " those lofty fables and romances, " which recount in solemn cantos " the deeds of knighthood, &c." Prose Work*, i. 11. T. Warion. 118. — of trophies hung.'] So in Sams. Agon. 1738. With nil his... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1826 - 548 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... | |
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