| Edna Lyall - 1905 - 412 pages
...themselves had sworn. . . . Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit without that oath ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the...laying of a sword upon his shoulder, to stir him up, both by his counsel and his arm to serve and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity." MILTON.... | |
| Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - 1908 - 616 pages
...youth, Milton says: " Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the...laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity." And... | |
| William Morison - 1909 - 172 pages
...kept me above low descents. . . . My mind gave me that every free and gentle spirit, without an oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying on of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted... | |
| George Saintsbury - 1912 - 518 pages
...things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the...laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity. So... | |
| Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...things of the gods : only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the...laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arm, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity. CUSTOM... | |
| Frances Jenkins Olcott - 1912 - 392 pages
...every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect a gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms." This same moral influence, exerted by romance upon the young Milton,... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 pages
...things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the...laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity. So... | |
| Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 pages
...things of the Gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword 5 upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness... | |
| Walter Swain Hinchman - 1915 - 488 pages
...mind gave me," he later wrote of his youth, " that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the...laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity." While... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ustain their parts — Then shall I dare these real...tinsel trappings of poetic pridet No; cast by Fortu both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity. . .... | |
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