...of his studies, too, in the introduction to his ' Apology for Smectymnuus.' 'I betook me,' says he, 'among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...from 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...

...prophets and apostles, in binding him ' everlastingly in willing homage ' to the great, the honorable, and the lovely in character. A remarkable passage...from 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...

...prophets and apostles, in binding him ' everlastingly in willing homage ' to the great, the honorable, and the lovely in character. A remarkable passage...from 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...

...in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy." Vol. I. p. 237, 238. We learn from his works, that he used his multifarious...from 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...

...prostitutions. 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,...from 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...

...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 stedfast...

...prostitutions. Next, (far hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered; vis cantees the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown mer all...

...both singly and in combination ; and all the energy and vivacity of ideas. Censura Literaria, " Next, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances, which recount, in sublime cantos, the dee^s of knighthood. So that even these books, proved to me so many enticements...

...prostitutions. 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,...from 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...

...nourishing within him that sublime virtue which made him a glory to humanity. ' I betook myself,' says he, ' among those lofty fables and romances, which recount...knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from thence had in renown all over christendom. There I read it in the oath of every knight, that he should...