 Call you that desperate, which, by a line Of institution, from our ancestors Hath been derived down to us, and received In a succession for the noblest way Of breeding up our youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the...  The History of Chivalry; Or, Knighthood and Its Times - Page 177by Charles Mills - 1844 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...youth in letters, arms. Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise. And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To...body gracefuller ? to speak His language purer • or tuue his mind And manners more to the harmony of nature, Than in these nurseries of nobility ? Host.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 478 pages
...youth in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence. To...body gracefuller ? to speak His language purer ? or tune his mind And manners more to the harmony of nature. Than in these nurseries of nobility ?— —... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...youth in letters, arms, Ifair mien, discourses, civil exercise. And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefuller ? to *peak His language purer ? or tune his mind And manners more to the harmony of nature. Than in these... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 pages
...discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman f Where can he learn to vault, to ride, it fence, To move his body gracefuller? to speak His...of nature. Than in these nurseries of nobility?— — Host. I, that was, when the nursery's self was noble, And only virtue made it, not the market,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Marston Moor, Battle of, England, 1644 - 1813 - 468 pages
...youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To...Or manners, more to the harmony of nature, Than in the nurseries of nobility ?. Host . Aye, that was when the nursery's self wns noble, And only virtue... | |
 | Walter Scott - Ballads, Scots - 1813 - 444 pages
...youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move bis body gracefully ; to speak His language purer; or to tune his mind, Or manners, more to the harmony... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 472 pages
...youth,4 in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To...harmony of nature, Than in these nurseries of nobility ? Host. Ay, that was when the nursery's self was noble, And only virtue made it, not the market, That... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 474 pages
...youth,4 in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To...body gracefuller, to speak His language purer, or to time his mind, Or manners, more to the harmony of nature, Than in these nurseries of nobility? Host.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1818 - 312 pages
...youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefuller ? to spe»k Tlis language purer? or to tune his mind, Or manners, more to the harmony of nature, Than in... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 290 pages
...youth, in letters, arms, Fair mien, discourses, civil exercise, And all the blazon of a gentleman ? Where can he learn to vault, to ride, to fence, To move his body gracefully ; to speak His language purer ; or to rune his mind, Or manners, more to the harmony of... | |
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