 | Friedrich Zander - Faerie queene - 1905 - 122 pages
...actions is to be discover and win Gloriana or Glory. In a word in this character the poet professes to pourtray the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral Virtues." 1) WO 6/7. 2) S. Spenser's Letter to Sir W. Raleigh (Globe Ed. 3 ff.). 3) Wülker giebt S. 243 den... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - England - 1907 - 454 pages
...person in virtuous and gentle discipline. " I labour," he says " 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." The poet intended... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English literature - 1910 - 512 pages
...continues: By ensample of which excellent poets, 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, which if I find to... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - Literary Criticism - 1912 - 368 pages
...explanation of that and of his general aim — " 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 " — that none can follow either one or other, the less so since they are... | |
 | Guy Andrew Thompson - Criticism - 1914 - 238 pages
...Walter Raleigh, in which he declares that his object was to portray "in Arthur before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." If the first twelve books embodying this motive should be "well accepted," he would perhaps be "encouraged... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - English literature - 1915 - 488 pages
...of Homer, Virgil, Ariosto, and Tasso, Spenser labors " 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." " In that Faerie Queen," the poet goes on to explain, " I mean Glory in... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - Europe - 1920 - 448 pages
...speak, " as of the time," Spenser tells how he proposes to portray " in Arthure, before he was King, the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised ; that which is the purpose of these first twelve books ; which if I find... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 268 pages
...and Tasso, "by example of which excellent Poets 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, which if I find to... | |
 | Peter Korrel - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 320 pages
...portray the king. Spenser in his Faerie Queene laboured to "pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral! vertues", but "magnificence, in particular, which 205 Cp. also ET Pochoda, Arthurian Propaganda, Oxford,... | |
 | Cedric Clive Brown - History - 1993 - 318 pages
...will be similarly confined. Together these twelve books are to portray 'in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues ... which, if I find to be well accepted', he says, 'I may be perhaps encouraged to frame the other... | |
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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... 
