 Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods ; only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him...  Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others - Pàgina 203per Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 507 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 pàgines
...fault of the poet, as that which is attributed to Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle...shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity. So that even these books, which... | |
 | Frances Jenkins Olcott - 1912 - 392 pàgines
...every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect a gilt spur, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms." This same moral influence, exerted by romance upon the young Milton, is to-day working upon... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 pàgines
...fault of the poet, as that which is attributed to Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle...shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity. So that even these books, which... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 pàgines
...fault of the poet as that which is attributed to Homer, to have written indecent things of the Gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle...to expect the gilt spur, or the laying of a sword 5 upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1921 - 492 pàgines
...must be, to the defence of which so many worthies, by such a deare adventure of themselves, had sworne Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be borne a Knight, nor needed to expect the guilt spurre, or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder,... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - 1915 - 488 pàgines
...account of the purity of his character. " Only this my mind gave me," he later wrote of his youth, " that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath,...shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity." While he was still at the university,... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pàgines
...fault of the poet, as that which is attributed to Homer, to have written indecent things of the gods. ^ callX=Z. arms, to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity. . . . Thus, from the laureat fraternity... | |
 | Gustave Rudler, Louis Adolphe Terracher - 1919 - 486 pàgines
...and gentle spirit, without thé oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed thé gilt spur or thé laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up, both by his counsel and his arms, to secure and protect thé weakness of attempted innocence.1 The courtesies of war, which French... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 pàgines
...fault of the poet, as 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...and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity. So that even those books, which to many others have been the fuel of wantonness and loose living, I... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas, Harry Gilbert Paul - 1921 - 416 pàgines
...knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and thence had in renown through all Christendom," he says, "This my mind gave me, that every free and gentle...oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect a gilt spur or the laying on of a sword upon his shoulder," THE HUMAN SIDE OF MEXICO CHARLES BERNARD... | |
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