...picturesque pageantry of chivalry and romance. " I betook me," he writes in the Apology for Smectymmts " among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood.'' The poet's wanderings in the fields of old romance have left their traces distinctly in some of the...

...this poetic tendency appears. In his " Apology lor Sraectymnuus, " he says " that he betook himself to lofty fables and romances which recount, in solemn cantos, the deeds of knighthood." He hopes to write yet, as he says, " in a still time, when there shall be no more chiding." In his...

...read. In one of his prose works he says : "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." 'Beside' as an adverb is now almost displaced by the later form 'besides.' 117. sage and solemn tunes,...

...romances " (Milton is thinking here, perhaps, of his favorite " our sage and serious poet, Spenser") "which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should defend to the expense of his best blood,...

...after leaving the classic groves of Cam. ''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." As to youthful Milton's beauty of person, all men of his time agreed. So fair...

...primitive farmhouse with his four-footed mends. CHAPTER XV. A DEAR ADVENTURE. "Next .... I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood. . . . There I read it In the oath of every knight that he should defend to the expense of his best...

...(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 in the oath of every knight that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life...

...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 in the oath of every knight that he should defend to the expense of his best blood, or of his life...

...Arthurian legends. A greater than Spenser came near doing so. In his youth, Milton tells us, " I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount...knighthood, founded by our victorious kings, and from thence had in renown over all Christendom." He had for long in contemplation an epic poem whose subject...

...reverence for the characters and ideals of the knights : he tells us that in his youth he betook himself ' among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...of knighthood founded by our victorious kings,' and that the magnanimous and pure lives of the heroes proved to him 'so many incitements ... to the love...