 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 416 דפים
...sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream, and their feet to wander among the lofty fables and romances which recount, in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood ; and all the while God may be leading them, as St. Anselm says, " through vanity to truth," " per... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 818 דפים
...contrived to obliterate, even in him, some expressions of the modesty of nature. Milton says that " the lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood, proved to him, by the price which they set upon chastity, so many incitements to the love and steadfast... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 412 דפים
...sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream, and their feet to wander among the lofty fables and romances which recount, in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood ; and all the while God may be leading them, as St. Anselm says, " through vanity to truth," " per... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 דפים
...prophets and apostles, in binding him " everlastingly in willing homage" to the great, the honorable, and the lovely in character. A remarkable passage...from hence had in renown 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... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 דפים
...prostitutions. Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,*...from hence had in renown 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 דפים
...prostitutions. Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,*...from hence had in renown 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... | |
 | 1848 - 322 דפים
...OEOME DALZIEL. ON THE ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY. PAKT I. " I will tell you where ray early feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances...recount, in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood." — MILTON. IT is hardly possible to dwell on the remarkable characteristics of the Olden Time, without... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 דפים
...prophets and apostles, in binding him " everlastingly in willing homage" to the great, the honorable, and the lovely in character. A remarkable passage...from hence had in renown 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... | |
 | 1849 - 606 דפים
...and guided by works of fiction. " I will tell you," said Milton, " whither my young feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances...recount in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood." Still it is true, that of all the intellectual powers, this ordinarily needs the least of stimulus,... | |
 | John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 452 דפים
...prostitutions. Next (for hear me out now, readers) that I may tell ye whither my young feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos die deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence held in renown all over Christendom.... | |
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Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my 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 kings, and from hence had... 
