| John Milton - 1872 - 234 páginas
...(for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my young feet wandered, I betook me among lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn...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 of his best blood, or... | |
| John Milton - 1872 - 250 páginas
...(for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my young feet wandered, I betook me among lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn...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 of his best blood, or... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - 1872 - 238 páginas
...through 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... | |
| Jephson Huband Smith - 1873 - 240 páginas
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| Casket - 1873 - 874 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| 1875 - 1070 páginas
...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... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1875 - 836 páginas
...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... | |
| John Milton - 1875 - 824 páginas
...praiseworthy." In the next paragraph he proceeds — " That I may teli ye whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances...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... | |
| John Milton - 1924 - 260 páginas
...youthful studies : "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 deeds of knighthood," Apol.for Smect., PW III. 1 1 8. The interest of this reference to the legend... | |
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