 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...examples, he exhibits Prince Arthur as his principal or general hero, in whose character heprofesses to pourtray, ' The image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues.' ITNA AND THE KE0-CBOSS KNIGHT. A GENTLE knight was pricking on the plain,. Yclad in mighty arms and... | |
 | Great Britain. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] - Authors, English - 1836 - 416 pages
...Magnificence, assumed to be the perfection of all the rest. In this character, the poet professes to exhibit " the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues :'' and in this character, in truth, the unity of the work is completed. The way in which Prince Arthur... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1839 - 450 pages
...next thing to be considered is the construction of his VOL. I. C fable. His object being to portray the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, he selects Prince Arthur, at that time well known in popular story, as the hero who is to exemplify... | |
 | Irishman - 1840 - 238 pages
...Godfredo. By ensample of which excellent poets they labour to pourtraict in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised; the which is the purpose of these twelve books: which if I find to be well... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Literature - 1845 - 354 pages
...exhibits Prince Arthur as his principal or general hero, in whose character he professes to portray " the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." From this celebrated poem we copy a brief extract, which describes the cell of a hypocritical hermit... | |
 | 1857 - 486 pages
...to Sir Walter Raleigh. 2. State what are the virtues celebrated by the poet; and in what order. king the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve books." 4. What is the special... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1860 - 476 pages
...Godfredo. By ensample of which excellente poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private Moral! Vertues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve Bookes : which... | |
 | American literature - 1868 - 784 pages
...Scott's novels are to the readers of our time ; and he purposed " to portray in him, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." This plan was to be comprised in twelve books ; and then he proposed, in case his plan succeeded, "... | |
 | American essays - 1868 - 798 pages
...Scott's novels are to the readers of our time ; and he purposed " to portray in him, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." This plan was to be comprised in twelve books ; and then he proposed, in case his plan succeeded, "... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - England - 1869 - 384 pages
...Scott's novels are to the readers of our time; and he purposed " to portray in him, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." This plan was to be comprised in twelve books; and then he proposed, in case his plan succeeded, "... | |
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Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve books... 
