 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - Authors, English - 1908 - 610 pages
...as " a continued Allegory, or darke conceit," must have its general intention clearly set forth : it is " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Such a moral, the poet goes on, should be " coloured with an historical] fiction, the which the most... | |
 | William Paton Ker - Epic poetry - 1908 - 438 pages
...portrait of Kjartan may look as if it were designed, like the portrait of Amadis or Tirant the White, " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Sometimes the story is involved in the ordinary business of Icelandic life, and Kjartan and Bolli,... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - American literature - 1908 - 288 pages
...of Wisedome." The Faerie Queene is the flower of the school in England, with its confessed attempt " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" by uniting "the twelve private morall vertues" of Aristotle with the graces of chivalry. There is a... | |
 | Christopher Hare - Italy - 1908 - 352 pages
...pupil's requirements. It is curious to find Spenser telling us that the aim of his "Faerie Queen" was "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," by showing how the twelve moral virtues of Aristotle are set forth in the lives of twelve knights.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Poetry - 1908 - 896 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 ill vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1909 - 570 pages
...wyre: hair, stars: eyes. (32) 99. 05= according as. (33) THE FAERIE QUEENE. "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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1909 - 544 pages
...particular purposes or by-accidents therein occasioned. The generall end therefore of all the boolie is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline : Which for that I conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1909 - 612 pages
...is to be carried out : The generall end therefore of all the booke (he says in his letter to Ralegh) is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline : Which for that I conceived shonlde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - Prefaces - 1910 - 458 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 historicall... | |
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