 | John Milton - 1707 - 480 pages
...I take thy word, And truft thy honcft offer'd courtefie, Which oft is fooner found in lowly ftieds With fmoaky rafters, than in tap'ftry Halls And Courts...where it firft was nam'd, And yet is moft pretended : In a place Lefs warranted than this, or lefs fecure I cannot be, that I mould fear to change it $... | |
 | John Milton - 1753 - 418 pages
...Sic. i. And truft thy honefl offer'd courtefy, Which oft is fooner found in lowly fheds With fmoky rafters, than in tap'ftry halls And courts of princes, where it firft was nam'd, 325 And yet is moft pretended : In a place Lefs warranted than this, or lefs fecure, I cannot be, that... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1758 - 702 pages
...hone/I offer' d courtejte, Which oft is fooner found in lowly Jheds Wlthfmoaky rafters, than in tap'Jlry halls, And courts of princes, where it firft was nam'd, And yet is mo/t pretended. See Junius in Courtejte. II. To which he adding comely guize withall, And gracious... | |
 | John Milton - 1759 - 414 pages
...thy word, And truft thy honeft offer'd courtefy, Which oft is fooner found in lowly fheds With fmoky rafters, than in tap'ftry halls And courts of princes, where it firft was nam'd, 325 And yet is moft pretended: In a place Lefs warranted than this, or lefs fecure, I cannot be, that... | |
 | Books - 1763 - 556 pages
...in the character of thefe affemblies. Befides, the free commerce of the ladies, in thofe knots nnd circles of the great, would operate fo far on the...gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the necellity there was of maintaining the ftricl forms of decc*rum, amidll a promifcuous converlation... | |
 | History - 1763 - 552 pages
...feen in courts and infenfibly prevail there, a predominant part in the character of thefe aflemblies. Further,' the free commerce of the ladies, in thofe...knights as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. 4. It only remains to account for that charafter of religion, which was fo deeply imprinted on the... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Chivalry - 1776 - 358 pages
...fatal revolution before the age of MILTON, who tells us that Court efy is fooner found in lonely fheds With fmoaky rafters, than in tap'ftry halls And courts...gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the neceflity there was of maintaining the ftriiSl forms of decorum, amidft a promifcuous converfation... | |
 | English drama - 1777 - 380 pages
...oiler'd courtefy, * Which oft is fooner found in lowly flieds * With fmoaky rafters, than in tap'rtry halls *• And courts of princes, where it firft was nam'd,, * And yet is raoft pretended.' In a place, Left warranted than this, or lefsfecure, I canno: ber that I fliould... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...thy word, And truft thy honeft offer'd courtefy, Which oft is fooner found in lowly meds With fmoky rafters, than in tap'ftry halls And courts of princes, where it firft was nam'd, 315 And yet is moft pretended i In a place Lefs warranted than this, or left fecure, I cannot be, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 890 pages
...thy word, And truft thy honeft offer'd courtefy, Which oft is fooner found in lowly fheds With finoky rafters, than in tap'ftry halls And courts of princes, where it firft was nam'il, 325 And yet is moft pretended i In a place Lefs warranted than this, or lefs fecure, I cannot... | |
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... knights, as to give birth to the attentions of gallantry. But this gallantry would take a refined turn, not only from the... 
