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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... "
The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines ... - Page 494
by Francis Wrangham - 1816
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The Life of John Milton: Containing, Besides the History of His Works ...

John Toland - Christian literature, Early - 1761 - 278 pages
..." among thofe lofty fables and romances which " recount in folemn cantos the deeds of knight** hood founded by our victorious kings, and ** from hence had in renown over all chriftendom. " There I read it in the oath of every knight, that " he fhould defend to the expence...
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Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin

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....
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1789 - 560 pages
...younger feet wandered ; I betook me among thofe lofty fables and romances, which recount in loiemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings; and from hence had in renown all over Chrifteiidom. There I readit in the oath of every knight, that he ķhould defajį, to the...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...authors, with all the romantic usages of gothic and chivalric life. " I may- tell you," says he, " whither my younger feet wandered : I betook me among...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...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...favourite authors, with all the romantic usages of gothic and chivalric life. " I may tell you," says he, " whither my younger feet wandered : I betook me among...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...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...favourite authors, with all the romantic 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 TCCOUnt in SOLEMN CANTOS the deeds of knighthood * ;" and we have seen how much he was delighted with...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 440 pages
...feet wandered ; I betook me among thole lofty fables and romances, which recount in lolemn cantoes the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all chriftendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he fhould defend to the expenfe of his...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...feet wandered ; I betook me among thofe lofty fables and romances, which recount in fblemn cantoes the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all chriftendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he fhould defend to the expenfe of his...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

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...knighthood, founded by our victorious kings, and from hence liad in renown over all christendom: there I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 5

John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 pages
...feet wandered," when he " betook him among thofe lofty fables and romances, which recount in folemn Cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renowne over all Chriftendome." Apol. for Smeftyw. p. 177. Profe Workt, ed. Amft. 1698. DUSSTER. Ver....
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