 ... 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 of his life, if it so...  Sermons to Young Women - Page 78de James Fordyce - 1809 - 312 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 pages
...matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies, by such a dear adventure...themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it the same fault of the poet,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 628 pages
...matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies, by such a dear adventure...themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it the same fault of the poet,... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 252 pages
...matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to be the defense of which so many worthies, by such a dear adventure...themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it the same fault of the poet... | |
 | John Milton - 1896 - 232 pages
...matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to be the defense of which so many worthies, by such a dear adventure...themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it the same fault of the poet... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 350 pages
...matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies, by such a dear adventure...themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it the same fault of the poet,... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 346 pages
...or matron; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies, by such a dear adventure...themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it the same fault of the poet,... | |
 | John Milton, Hiram Corson - 1899 - 354 pages
...matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies, by such a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the H story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it the same fault of... | |
 | Sir Thomas Malory - 1899 - 590 pages
...whence even them I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so i many worthies, by such a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn ; and if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed breaking that oath, I judged it the same fault of the poet,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 450 pages
...or matron; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defense of which so many worthies, by such a dear adventure...themselves, had sworn. And if I found in the story afterward, any of them, by word or deed, breaking that oath, I judged it the same fault of the poet,... | |
 | Edmond Kelly - 1901 - 762 pages
...romances " of knighthood, says : " I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies, by such a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn." And assuredly the story of Amadis Nicolse and Nicoleth are in this respect jewels of the purest water,... | |
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