 | John Mitchel - Ireland - 1845 - 266 pages
...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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned. The general end therefore e : which for that I concerned shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical... | |
 | 1854 - 534 pages
...oopy, when the first 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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1857 - 600 pages
...expressing of any canicular purposes, or by-accirfenis, therein occasioned. The general end, therefore, of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or *noble person in rertuous and gentle discipline ; which for that I conceived shun Ide be most plausible and pleasing,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1859 - 858 pages
...expressing of any 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, disri- L plme; which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible /U and pleasing, bcing^polourcd... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...Walter Raleigh, which is generally 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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1867 - 304 pages
...expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned. The generall 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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1867 - 284 pages
...expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned. The generall 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... | |
 | John Mitchel - Tyrone's Rebellion, 1597-1603 - 1868 - 286 pages
...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 teUs... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1869 - 308 pages
...expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents therein occasioned. The generall 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, beeing coloured with an historicall... | |
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The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline... 
