 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1846 - 818 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 Seiten
...remarkable passage to this effect, we quote from his account of his youth ; — " 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. There I read it... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1848 - 540 Seiten
...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 in renown over all Christendom. There I read it... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 540 Seiten
...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 in renown over all Christendom. There I read it... | |
 | 1848 - 322 Seiten
...ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY. PAKT I. " I will tell you where ray early feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount, in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood." — MILTON. IT is hardly possible to dwell on the remarkable characteristics of the Olden Time, without... | |
 | 1849 - 606 Seiten
...fiction. " I will tell you," said Milton, " whither my young feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which 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,... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 Seiten
...remarkable passage to this effect, we quote from his account of his youth ; — " 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. There I read it... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 Seiten
...paragraph he proceeds—" 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 in renown over all christendom. . . . From the... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 518 Seiten
...passage of the Apology for Smectymnuus, on which the critics seem to rest. 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 all over Christendom. There I read it... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 Seiten
...me out now, readers, that I may tell 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 in renown over all Christendom. There I read, in... | |
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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 in... 
