 | Richard Helgerson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 390 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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Poetry - 1999 - 240 pages
...the poem that Spenser sent to Sir Walter Raleigh, "I labor to portrait in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." Redcross portrays the first of these, holiness. What are the others? Temperence is the subject of Book... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Chivalry in literature - 2001 - 320 pages
...actions is to difcover, and win, GLORIANA, or Glory. In a word, in this character the poet profefies to pourtray, " THE IMAGE OF A BRAVE KNIGHT PERFECTED...feeking and attaining one grand end, which is GLORIANA, ftiould exemplify one grand character, or a brave Knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues,... | |
 | E. Tillyard - 1949 - 228 pages
...Tasso. ...By ensample of which excellent poets, I labour to portrait, in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised. Now in recent years there has been a distinct shift of opinion towards taking... | |
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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... 
