 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 pages
...honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies, by such dear adventure of themselves had sworn. Also this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit,... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...honor and chastity of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learnt what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies,...that which is attributed to Homer — to have written undecent things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1862 - 854 pages
...honor and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies...by such a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn So that even these, books which to many others have been the fuel of wontonness and loose living, I... | |
 | John Milton, John Hunter - 1864 - 110 pages
...that in his younger days he learnt from ' lofty fables and romances ' ' what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies,...a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn ; ' and that ' riper years, and the ceaseless round of study and reading,' led him to appreciate the 'abstracted... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 108 pages
...that in his younger days he learnt from ' lofty fables and romances ' ' what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies,...a dear adventure of themselves, had sworn ; ' and that ' riper years, and the ceaseless round of study aud reading,' led him to appreciate the 'abstracted... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 352 pages
...honour and chastity of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learnt what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies...that which is attributed to Homer, to have written undecent things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me ; that every free and gentle spirit, without... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 874 pages
...honour and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learned what a noble virtue chastity e glad earth . . . "So that even these books, which to many others have been the fuel of wantonness and loose living,... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - 1874 - 432 pages
...befell him, the honour of virgin or matron. From whence even then T learnt what a noble vertue that sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies by such a deare adventure of themselves had sworne. And if I found in the story afterward any of them by word... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pages
...honor and chastity of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learnt what a noble virtue chastity sure must be, to the defence of which so many worthies,...that which is attributed to Homer — to have written undecent things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 704 pages
...chastity of virgin or matron. From whence even then I learnt what a noble virtue chastity sure most be, to the defence of which so many worthies, by such...that which is attributed to Homer — to have written undecent things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without... | |
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... 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 life, if it so befell him, the honour and chastity of virgin or matron ; from whence even then I learnt... 
