...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...hence had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expence of his best blood, or of his life,...

...founded by our n victorious kings, and from hence had in renown rt over all Christendom. There I read it in the " oath of every knight, that he should defend to the " expense of his blood, or of his life, if it so be" fell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or " matron. From whence...

...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....

...poet yet more 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...

...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...hence had in renown over all Christendom. There I read it in the oath of every Knight, .that ' he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his...

...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...

...will tell 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...

...but rove at times where, as he himself told us, his " younger feet wandered," when he " betook him among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renowne over all Christendome." Apol. for Smectymn. Dunster. 358. or fabled since &c.] Some readers...

...in his Apology for Smeetymnuus, " I may tell you " whither my younger feet wan" dered : I betook me among " those lofty fables and romances, " which recount in solemn cantos " the deeds of knighthood, &c." Prose Work*, i. 11. T. Warion. 118. — of trophies hung.'] So in Sams. Agon. 1738. With nil his...

...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,...our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown all over Christendom ; there I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense...