 | Simon Hillson - Social Science - 1996 - 762 pages
...four authors are the "antique Poets historical" being followed in this present work whose general end is "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline."14 Something like the distinction between prosopographia and prosopopoeia is seen in the... | |
 | Kevin Pask - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 238 pages
...sad, sober cheer. Poetry is to be religion made vocal" (435). The stated purpose of The Faerie Queene, "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" (407), marks Spenser's own investment in this reformation of poetic authority. In the longer term,... | |
 | Jeffrey Masten - Drama - 1997 - 244 pages
...Brathwait's, in gentlemen's conduct books; The Faerie Queene, for example, the "generall end [of which] is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," devotes a book to the subject. 7 Other treatments - for example, Bacon's "Of Friendship" and Florio's... | |
 | Peter G. Platt - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 304 pages
...genre affords the best means of achieving his end: in this "plausible and pleasing" form he aspires "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." He hopes to have an ethical effect even though fiction tends to be read "rather for variety of matter,... | |
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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... 
