...fable, full of hidden meaning, and the scene is laid in an imaginary land of chivalry. His purpose was " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Each book of the poem is allegorical of some virtue, such as temperance, friendship, courtesy ; each...

...this ancestral park. -'The generall end of all the booke," wrote Spenser of the "Faerie Queene," " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." And who but Sidney was his model ? He " impressed his own noble and beautiful character deeply on Spenser's...

...expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidente, therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person iu vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that I concerned shouldc be most plausible and pleasing,...

...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...

...impersonations, to enchant with interest the battle we are all engaged in. Spenser himself says, "the generall end of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Bunyan was a natural weaver of the allegorical web, to whom a religious purpose secured the worthiness...

...first three books published in 1590. 'The generall ende .... of all the booke," says the author, ' is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.' Of this, King Arthur is his exemplar, and he strives ' to pourtraict ' in him, ' before he was king,...

...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...

...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 historicall...

...knight-errantry of his day, is an elaborate allegory, the meaning and object of which, he tells us, " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Una, who has been separated from her Redcrosse knight, the pattern Englishman, by art magic, represents...

...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 iu vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that I conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing,...