 | Religion - 1815 - 892 pages
...find this exemplified in the favourite poet of the Faery Queene, who tells us, that " the general end of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline;" but, we believe, scarcely any standard poem, whether of antiquity or of modern timf s,... | |
 | England - 1834 - 918 pages
...gentleman too — not merely of the king's but of God's creating — tells us that " the general end of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Perhaps — though we hope not — you may have read Lord Chesterfield. It was the " general... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 356 pages
...commanded,) to discouer unto you the general intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I haue fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes,...a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that I conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 294 pages
...misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof, (being so by you commanded,) to discouer unto you the general intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I haue fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned.... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 896 pages
...gentleman too — not merely of the king's • but of God's creating — tells us that " the general end of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Perhaps — though we hope jiot — you may have read Lord Chesterfield. It was the "... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 444 pages
...gealous opinions and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof, (being so by you commanded,) to discover unto you the general...therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the Booko is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that... | |
 | 1839 - 538 pages
...immortal allegory, his high aim appears from the explanatory letter to Raleigh, that " the general end of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline,*' and thus he " moralized in song." In all his laments too — heart-broken as he probably... | |
 | Irishman - 1840 - 238 pages
...zealous opinions and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof, (being so by you commanded,) to discover unto you the general...therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the book, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person, in vertuous and gentle discipline;—which for that... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...aspired, 188 Spenser's Poetical Works. [Jan. and on this model he fashioned his hero. He observes, that " the general end, therefore, of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in gentle and virtuous discipline." And again ; " I labor to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 pages
...misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading tliereof, (being so by you commanded,) to discouer ong the rest, of many least, Have in the Ocean charge to me assignd ; Where I w haue fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned.... | |
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... to discover unto you the general intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I have fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents therein occasioned. The general! end therefore of all the booke is to fashion... 
