 | 1880 - 566 pages
...romances which recoun in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, am from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath o every knight, that he should defend to the expence of his best blood, or of his life it so befel... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1880 - 436 pages
...feet wander'd ; I betook me among those lofty Fables and Romances, which recount in solemne 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1881 - 874 pages
...wandered) I betook me among those lofty fables and romances [Spenser, &c.] which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious...blood, or of his life if it so befell him, the honour ana chastity of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learnt what a noble virtue chastity sure... | |
 | David Masson - 1881 - 878 pages
...wandered) I betook me among those lofty fables and romances [Spenser, <fcc.] which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious...blood, or of his life if it so befell him, the honour ana chastity of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learnt what a noble virtue chastity sure... | |
 | Henry Solly - 1883 - 472 pages
...Milton's writings : ' I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos 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... | |
 | 1883 - 778 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 - 1889 - 344 pages
...younger feet wander'd ; 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 renowne over all Christendome. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to... | |
 | WILLIAM E. CHANNING, D.D. - 1891 - 1074 pages
...his youth : — " I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount, in solemn cantos, weakness of the intellect, which needs a material form, then a statue, which lends so great an aid defendto the expense of his best blood or of his life, if it so befell him, the honor and chastity... | |
 | Sir Thomas Malory - 1893 - 584 pages
...which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from thence had in renown over all christendom. There I read it...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... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1893 - 392 pages
...wandered. 1 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 // Penseroso he refers to Chaucer's Squire's tale with evident admiration—a... | |
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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. 
