 | Edmund Spenser - 1896 - 312 pages
...for in his letter to Raleigh he says, speaking of the Faery Queene : " The generall end, therefore, of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline"; and surely we must gain in virtue and in magnanimity if we associate with the generous and noble spirit... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1896 - 312 pages
...for in his letter to Raleigh he says, speaking of the Faery Queene : " The generall end, therefore, of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline"; and surely we must gain in virtue and in magnanimity if we associate with the generous and noble spirit... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - Authors, English - 1897 - 406 pages
...first three books published in 1590. 'The generall ende .... of all the booke,' jays 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,... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - Authors, English - 1897 - 408 pages
...first throe 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,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1898 - 68 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 ani gentle discipline: Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - English literature - 1899 - 406 pages
...vanity, verie grave and profitable." Of The Faerie Queene he declares that 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 should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
 | United States - 1899 - 1004 pages
...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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...what would otherwise have remained obscure. " The generall end, therefore, of all the booke," he says, "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... | |
 | conte Baldassarre Castiglione - Courtesy - 1900 - 478 pages
...themselves on their morality. The aim of his book, said Spenser, was the Institution of a Gentleman : — ' to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline ' — mainly by inculcating on him the twelve private moral virtues of Aristotle, as exemplified in... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Authors, English - 1902 - 800 pages
...particular purposes, or by accidents, therein occasioned. The, general) end therefore of all the boohe it to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline: Which for that I conceived shoitlde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical... | |
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