 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...feet wandered ; I betook me among' those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantoes the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious...expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 pages
...his youth ; — " I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount, in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious...best blood or of his life, if it so befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...his youth ; — " I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount, in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious...best blood or of his life, if it so befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...whieh reeount in solema eantos the deeds of knighthood founded hy oar vietorious kings, and from henee had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it...knight, that he should defend to the expense of his hest hlood, or of his life, if it so hefel him, the honour and ehastity of virgin or matron ; from... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 544 pages
...feet wander'd ; I betook me among thofe lofty Fables and Romances, which recount in folemne canto's the deeds of Knighthood founded by our victorious Kings ; and from hence had in renowne over all Chriftendome. There I read it in the oath of every Knight, that he mould defend to... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...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...and from hence had in renown over all christendom. . . . From the laureate fraternity of poets, riper years, and the ceaseless round of studying and reading,... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious king?, and from hence hod in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in...should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of bis life, if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 510 pages
...cantos the deeds of knighthood, founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every...he should defend to the expense of his best blood the honour and chastity of virgin or matron. We may observe that Milton, who never uses his words at... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pages
...feet wandered, — I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious...had in renown over all Christendom. There I read, in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or even of his... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 518 pages
...feet wandered, — I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious...from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There 1 read, in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or even... | |
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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 over all Christendom. 
