 | 1875 - 1070 pages
...wandered.' 'I betook me,' he writes, '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 all over Christendom.' In II Penseroso he refers to Chaucer's Squire's Tale with evident admiration... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pages
...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 - 1876 - 506 pages
...ToftyTfiibles_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....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 - 1876 - 506 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...There I read it in the oath of every knight, that lie should defend, to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honor... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 514 pages
...feet wandered, — T 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... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1879 - 192 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 kings, and from hence had a renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend,... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1880 - 252 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...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expence of his best blood, or of his life if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1880 - 242 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...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expence of his best blood, or of his life if it so befcl him, the honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1880 - 240 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...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expence of his best blood, or of his life if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 pages
...knighthood founded by our victorious kings; and from hence had in renowne over all . Christeudome. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that...blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honour of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learnt what a noble vertue that sure must be, to the defence... | |
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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. 
