| 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
...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 Tales.... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...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 Tales.... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...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... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...out tiow, 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... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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... | |
| John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 424 pages
...august. "I will tell you," says Milton, " whither my younger feet wandered : I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which 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
...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
...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 Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 400 pages
...you," says he in his apology for Smectymnus, " whither my young feet wandered. I betook me among those lofty fables and 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... | |
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