 | Religion - 1815 - 892 pages
...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
...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
...particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline: which for that I conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Mitchel - Ireland - 1845 - 266 pages
...nation, he began inditing that solemn and tender strain, the intent of which he has informed us is " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," — nay, he drew inspiration from the hideous Golgotha that lay around him ; and when his Merlin tells... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the Booke is h no hope of happinesse or blis. " How manie great ones may remembred be : which for that I concerned shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical... | |
 | 1854 - 534 pages
...three books were printed in 1589, the poet says : ' The general end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline ; which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...prefixed to the work, the author has explained his plan : — " The general end of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline ; which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical... | |
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