...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...

...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...

...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 fiction, the 'which...

...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"...

...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...

...particular purposes or by-accidents therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the book, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person, in vertuous and gentle discipline;—which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with...

...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...

...famished 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...

...that I conceived should be most pla'usible and pleasing, being colored with an historical Jic. tion, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter than for profit of the ensample, I chose the history of King Arthur, as most fit for the excellency...

...particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the Booke hath no hope of happinesse or blis. " How manie great ones may remembred be, Which in their da concerned shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical fiction, the which...