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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. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend... "
Charles Dayrell: A Modern Bacchanal - Page 9
by Henry Solly - 1883 - 459 pages
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 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,...defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his hie, if it so befel him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron : ' from whence even then I learnt...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...prostitutions. Next, for hear me aut now, readers, thal I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,...expense of his best blood or of his life, if it so befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 29

1828 - 592 pages
...lovely in character. A remarkable passage to this effect we quote from his account of his youth. ' I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,...best blood, or of his life, if it so befel him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then 1 learned what a noble virtue chastity...
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Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton: Occasioned by the ...

William Ellery Channing - 1828 - 128 pages
...lovely in character. A remarkable passage to this effect we quote from his account of his youth. ' I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,...expense of his best blood or of his life, if it so befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron; from whence even then I learned what a noble...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 29

1828 - 562 pages
...knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom. Therol read it in the oath of every knight, that he should...best blood, or of his life, if it so befel him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then 1 learned what a noble virtue chastity...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1

1829 - 434 pages
...of his studies, too, in the introduction to his ' Apology for Smectymnuus.' 'I betook me,' says he, 'among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...best blood or of his life, if it so befel him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity...
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The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1

1829 - 440 pages
...of his studies, too, in the introduction to his ' Apology for Smectymnuus.' 'I betook me,' says he, 'among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...best blood or of his life, if it so befel him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity...
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Discourses, Reviews, and Miscellanies

William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 622 pages
...lovely in character. A remarkable passage to this effect we quote from his account of his youth. ' I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,...expense of his best blood or of his life, if it so befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron; from whence even then I learned what a noble...
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Discourses, Reviews, and Miscellanies

William Ellery Channing - 1830 - 630 pages
...lovely in character. A remarkable passage to this effect we quote from his account of his youth. ' I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,...the expense of his best blood or of his life, if it HO befell him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron; from whence even then I learned what a noble...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 5

1839 - 876 pages
...IGvizol, Hittary of Civilization in Europe. t " I read it in the oath ofevery true knight, that ho should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life, if it so befel him, the honor and chastity of virgin or matron; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue that sure...
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