 | Samuel Egerton Brydges, Joseph Haslewood - English literature - 1810 - 648 pages
...such dangerous consequences as Ascham and Meres supposed, is further evident from his saying, " Next, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount, in sublime cantos, the deeds of knighthood. So thai even these books, proved to me so many enticements... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 424 pages
...later period they nourished the genius of a poet yet more august. "I will tell you," says Milton, " whither my younger feet wandered : I betook me among...recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood." A change introduced in the customs and mode of life among the inhabitants of Europe, as it was the... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 608 pages
...equal Xenopbon." — Apology /or Strtectymnus, " I betook me," he continues in the same Apology, " to among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood foundtd by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over Christendom. Tlisr» hod been... | |
 | Charles Mills - Crusades - 1821 - 444 pages
...sing of " knights' " and lords' gentle deeds." cc 'l will tell you," that majestic bard declares, " whither my " younger feet wandered, I betook me among " those lofty fables and romances which re" count in solemn cantos the deeds of chi" valry."* On the fair part of ancient warfare the Crusades... | |
 | Charles Mills - Crusades - 1822 - 468 pages
...muses sing of " knights' " and lords' gentle deeds/' " I will tell you," that majestic bard declares, " whither my " younger feet wandered. I betook me among " those lofty fables and romances which re" count in solemn cantos the deeds of chi" valry." ** valry."* On the 'fair part of ancient war-... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 468 pages
...agreeable to his i " I will tell you," says lie in hi8 apology for Smectyiuniis, " whither my young feet wandered. I betook me among those lofty fables...romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of chivalry." Prose Works, vol. i, p. 224. imagination, as Fleet Street: in criticising Lord Lyttleton's... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...che s' aiconde, Sotte queste coperte alte e profonde. Milton says in his Apology for Smeetymnuus, " I may tell you ' whither my younger feet wandered:...recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood, &c." Prose Works, i. 11. T. Warton. 118. — of trophies hung.] So in Sams. Agon. 1738. With all his... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...Milton says in his Apology for Smeetymnuus, " I may tell you " whither my younger feet wan" dered : I betook me among " those lofty fables and romances,...recount in solemn cantos " the deeds of knighthood, &c." Prose Work*, i. 11. T. Warion. 118. — of trophies hung.'] So in Sams. Agon. 1738. With nil his... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...agree to saleable and unlawful prostitutions. Next, for hear me out now readers, that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over Christendom ; there I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...but rove at times where, as he himself told us, " his younger feet wandered," when he " betook him among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renowne over all Christendome." Apol.for Smectym. p. 177. Prose Works, ed. Amst. 1698. DUNSTER. Ver.... | |
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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... 
