| Simon Brittan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 242 pages
...of contemporary politics. But there are further designs: The generall end therefore of all the book 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... | |
| Elizabeth Spiller - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 214 pages
...historical one, it does allow us to take seriously the fictive presumption that the end of the book is to "fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." "Noble person" is perhaps a broader category than "gentleman," but it is not necessarily one that includes... | |
| Jessica Wolfe - History - 2004 - 326 pages
...mortal flesh and the debilities of a human soul, Spenser's Talus complicates The Faerie Queene's project to fashion a "gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," for his inhuman constitution and his barbarity reveal the potentially dehumanizing effects of that... | |
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