The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.