 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...APOLOGY for SMECTYMNUUS. " 1 may tell you whither my " younger feet wandered : I betook me among thofe lofty fables and " romances, which recount in SOLEMN CANTOS the deeds of knight* "hood, &c." PROSE-WORKS, i. 11. 118. — Of trophies bung.} So in SAMSON ACONISTES, v. 1738.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...usages of gothic and chivalric life. " I may- tell you," says he, " whither my younger feet wandered : I betook me among those LOFTY FABLES AND ROMANCES,...which recount in SOLEMN CANTOS the deeds of knighthood * ;" and we have seen how much he was delighted with the Arabian story of Cambuscan in the Canterbury... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...usages of gothic and chivalric life. " I may tell you," says he, " whither my younger feet wandered : I betook me among those LOFTY FABLES AND ROMANCES,...which recount in SOLEMN CANTOS the deeds of knighthood * ;" and we have seen how much he was delighted with the Arabian story of Cambuscan in the Canterbury... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...prostitutions^ Next, (for hear me out tiow, readers,) that I may tell you whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,...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... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...prostitutions. Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell you whither my younger feet wandered; 1 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 liad in renown over all christendom: there I read it... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 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
...genius of a poet yet more august. "I will tell you," says Milton, " whither my younger feet wandered : I betook me among those lofty fables and romances...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...prostitutions. Next (for hear me out now, readers) that I may tell you 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
