 | David Masson - English literature - 1881 - 878 pages
...whither my younger feet wandered) I betook me among those lofty fables and romances [Spenser, <fcc.] which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood...oath of every knight that he should defend, to the expense of his best blood, or of his life if it so befell him, the honour ana chastity of virgin or... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - English literature - 1920 - 356 pages
...knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom. There I read in the oath of every knight that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life if it so befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - Books and reading - 1921 - 228 pages
...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...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas, Harry Gilbert Paul - American literature - 1921 - 416 pages
...gentleman of enduring reality. After narrating how, in his youth, he betook himself "to those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds...of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and thence had in renown through all Christendom," he says, "This my mind gave me, that every free and... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 pages
...every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin 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... | |
 | Western Reserve University - 1924 - 104 pages
...himself that can agree to salable and unlawful Prostitutions. Next I betook me among those lofty Fables and Romances which recount in solemn Cantos the Deeds...best Blood, or of his Life, if it so befel him, the Honor and Chastity of Virgin or Matron : from whence even then I learnt what a noble Virtue Chastity... | |
 | Ida Langdon - Aesthetics - 1924 - 366 pages
...poetry, especially by the Breton cycle, and his 'younger feet wandered . . . among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds...victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.'1 In // Penseroso the young poet, high in his 'lonely tower,' beguiles the night with... | |
 | Walter Franz Schirmer - English literature - 1924 - 254 pages
...durch Ariosto und Spenser. '/ betook me among those lofty Fables and Romances which recount in solemne cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renowne over all Christendome (A Modest Refutation 1642), aber sofort nachher kommt die auf die Doppelneigung... | |
 | Denis Saurat - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1925 - 400 pages
...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...oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or... | |
 | William Paton Ker - Literature - 1925 - 402 pages
...Paradise Regained, reminding us where the poet's younger feet had wandered " among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds...knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence held in renown over all Christendom." Milton in a prose essay places Ariosto of Ferrara as high as... | |
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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. 
