 | 1896 - 842 pages
...historical," Homer, Virgil, Arlosto, and Tasso, he goes on: "i labor to portray 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 first twelve books." This scheme, dealing... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1896 - 526 pages
...Homer, Virgil, Ariosto, and Tasso, he goes on : "I labour to pourtray 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 first twelve books." This scheme, dealing... | |
 | Literature - 1896 - 928 pages
...historical," Homer, Virgil, Ariosto, and Tasso. he goes on: "I labor to portray 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 first twelve books." This scheme, dealing... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1897 - 478 pages
...disturbed, a fact which proves conclusively that the central idea, as described by Spenser, viz., " the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues," though it may have been in the poet's mind before he began to write, was not the actual inspiring motive... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1898 - 68 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 if... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - English literature - 1901 - 556 pages
...public man. By ensample of which excellent poets, I labour to pourtray 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 first twelve books ; which, if I find... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen - English literature - 1903 - 328 pages
...After this rather ambiguous declaration he adds : ' I labour to portray 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 first twelve books.' Arthur is to represent... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Arthurian romances - 1904 - 204 pages
...Spenser (1552-1599), in his greatest poem, the Faerie Queene, used the story of King Arthur to portray "the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." We know that Milton, too (1608-1674), about half a century later, planned to write a poem on King Arthur... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 304 pages
...in that' continued allegory or dark conceit,' ' I labour to pourtray in Arthur, before he was King, the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle doth devise, the which is the purpose of these first twelve books. ... So have I laboured... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - Arthurian romances - 1904 - 236 pages
...(1552-1599), in hii greatest poem, the Fatrit Quteni, uied the ttory of King Arthur to portray "ihe image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." We know that Milton, too (1008-1(174), about half a century later, planned to write a poem on King... | |
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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... 
