 | Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1877 - 270 pages
...prefixed to these three books a letter to Ralegh, in which he set forth the object of his work to be "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Though Ealegh managed to recover the place in the Queen's favour which he had lost at first through... | |
 | William T. Dobson - Epic poetry - 1879 - 452 pages
...Spenser gives an explanation of his intention in the Fairy Queen, and says: ' The general 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 historical... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1881 - 257 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, beeing coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1881 - 257 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, beeing coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - English literature - 1882 - 225 pages
...plan. Spenser has told us in his letter to Raleigh all we want. " The general end of all the bookes is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." " I labour to pour1 traici in Arthure the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve Morali Vertues."... | |
 | Biography - 1883
...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 in vertuous and gentle discipline : Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1883 - 257 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, beeing coloured with an historicall... | |
 | 1888
...setting forth of her knights upon the adventures, described in the previous books. His object, he says, is ' to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline,' and following, as he considers, Homer, Virgil, Ariosto and Tasso ; this he purposes to do by means... | |
 | Edward Dowden - Criticism - 1888 - 525 pages
...Spenser the best suited and the most needful to his own time; his end, as he declared to Raleigh, was " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." He desired to see at the head of affairs in England a company of noble Englishmen serving for no selfish... | |
 | Religion - 1890
...Spenser certainly has a most serious purpose, which he states as follows : " The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline. ... I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave Knight, perfected in... | |
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