 | Religion - 1815 - 892 pages
...find this exemplified in the favourite poet of the Faery Queene, who tells us, that " the general end of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline;" but, we believe, scarcely any standard poem, whether of antiquity or of modern timf s, not excepting... | |
 | England - 1834 - 918 pages
...gentleman too — not merely of the king's but of God's creating — tells us that " the general end of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Perhaps — though we hope not — you may have read Lord Chesterfield. It was the " general end" of... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof, (being so by you commanded,) to discouer unto you the general intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I haue fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned.... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...gentleman too — not merely of the king's • but of God's creating — tells us that " the general end of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Perhaps — though we hope jiot — you may have read Lord Chesterfield. It was the " general end"... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...immortal allegory, his high aim appears from the explanatory letter to Raleigh, that " the general end of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline,*' and thus he " moralized in song." In all his laments too — heart-broken as he probably was — is... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 pages
...s. XII. In the letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, he informs us, "that the general end of all the hooks is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." This was a noble design; but whether, at this period, an uninterrupted series of knightly adventures... | |
 | Irishman - 1840 - 238 pages
...zealous opinions and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof, (being so by you commanded,) to discover unto you the general intention...fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes or by-accidents therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the book, is to fashion a gentleman... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...Spenser's Poetical Works. [Jan. and on this model he fashioned his hero. He observes, that " the general end, therefore, of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in gentle and virtuous discipline." And again ; " I labor to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king,... | |
 | 1841 - 572 pages
...accomplishments, in elegance, and in manly virtues, from the reality. His object, as he has himself told us, was, to " fashion a gentleman, or noble person, in vertuous and gentle discipline;" and again, "Ilaoour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1843 - 388 pages
...better light in reading thereof, (being so by you commanded,) to discover unto you the general mtention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I have...without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned. The general end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman... | |
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