 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 renown...  The American Monthly Magazine - Page 2601829Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1870 - 352 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...knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from thence had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1870 - 764 pages
...hid in renown over ill Christendom. There I read it in as his intellectual, and it maybe expressed in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the one word, magnanimity. It was in harmony expense of his best blood or of his life, if it so befell... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1871 - 222 pages
...elfin dream, And mix in Milton's heavenly theme." Milton himself has told us how — " 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... | |
 | Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1872 - 238 pages
...Spenser's elfin dream, And mix in Milton's heavenly theme." Milton himself has told us how —" 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... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...remarkable passage to this effect, we quote from his account of his youth. " 1 betook me among those lofly ort, the village inn ; but it too was gone. A large...place, with great gaping windows, some of 'hem broken, ull Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1874 - 432 pages
...younger feet wander'd ; I betook me among those lofty Fables and Eomances, which recount in solemue cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings ; and from hence had in renowne over all Christendome. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1875 - 836 pages
...slanders of an nnscrupulous enemy, he tells whither 'his young feet wandered.' 'I betook me,' he writes, ' among those lofty fables and romances which recount...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over Christendom.' In II Penseroso he refers to Chaucer's Squire's Tale with evident admiration... | |
 | 1875 - 1070 pages
...slanders of an unscrupulous enemy, he tells whither 'his young feet wandered.' 'I betook me,' he writes, 'among those lofty fables and romances which recount...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over Christendom.' In II Penseroso he refers to Chaucer's Squire's Tale with evident admiration... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pages
...whither my younger feet wandered) I betook me among those lofty fables and romances [Spenser, etc.], which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood...founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had a renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight that he should defend, to... | |
 | John Milton - 1875 - 824 pages
...the next paragraph he proceeds — " That I may teli ye whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount,...solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood, founded by our victorioui kings, ind from hence had in renown over all christen* florn. . . . From the laureate fraternity... | |
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