...afterwards achieved ! Having imbued himself with classical knowledge — " Next/' he adds, " I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood, so that even those books proved to me so many enticements to the love and steadfast observation of...

...Next (for hear me out now, readers) that I may tell ye whither my young feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded hy our victorious kings, and from hence held in renown all over Christendom. There I read it in the...

...the next paragraph he proceeds—" That I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount,...and from hence had in renown over all christendom. . . . From the laureate fraternity of poets, riper years, and the ceaseless round of studying and reading,...

...effect, we quote from his account of liis youth. " I betook me among those lofty fables and romancea, which recount in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from heneo had in renown over all Christcndem. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should...

...deeds." " Í will tell you," that majestic bard declares, " whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of chivalry."* On the fair part of ancient warfare the Crusades cast a baleful influence. The tenacious...

...(for hear me out now, readers) that ' I may tell ye whether my younger feet wandered, 1 betook me ' among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.'* In order to assist the judgment of the inexperienced, we will take a rapid survey of the novels and...

...sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream, and their feet to wander among the lofty fables and romances which recount, in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood ; and all the while God may be leading them, as St. Anselm says, " through vanity to truth," " per...

...sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream, and their feet to wander among the lofty fables and romances which recount, in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood ; and all the while God may be leading them, as St. Anselm says, " through vanity to truth," " per...

...contrived to obliterate, even in him, some expressions of the modesty of nature. Milton says that " the lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood, proved to him, by the price which they set upon chastity, so many incitements to the love and steadfast...

...ON THE ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY. PAKT I. " I will tell you where ray early feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount, in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood." — MILTON. IT is hardly possible to dwell on the remarkable characteristics of the Olden Time, without...