 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...would otherwise have remained obscure. " The generall end, therefore, of all the booke," he says, " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline. ... I chose the historie of King Arthure, as most fit for the excellencie of his person, beeing made... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Poetry - 1908 - 896 pages
...gealous opinions and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading therof, (being so by you commanded,) to discover unto you the general intention...the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person ill vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Poetry - 1908 - 892 pages
...(being so by you commanded,) to discover unto you the general intention and meaning, which in the 10 , That they lay scattred over all the land, As thicke...seeing so to rage, Willd him to stay, and signe of tofashiou a gentleman or noble person in Tortuous and gentle discipline : which for that I conceived... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - Letter-writing - 1908 - 312 pages
...your better light in reading thereof, (being so by you commanded) to discover unto you the generall intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof...without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents therein occasioned. The generall end therefore of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere - Authors, English - 1908 - 610 pages
...as " a continued Allegory, or darke conceit," must have its general intention clearly set forth : it is " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Such a moral, the poet goes on, should be " coloured with an historical] fiction, the which the most... | |
 | David Duff - History - 1994 - 304 pages
...there is, in addition, an echo of Spenser's famous remark that the purpose of The Faerie Queene was ' to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline', 40 an aim that can be identified with the vision of an ideal prince which extends over the whole poem... | |
 | John Watkins - Poetry - 1995 - 230 pages
...and Acrasia signal Spenser's own resistance to romance conventions that might subvert his aspirations "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" ("A Letter of the Author to Sir Walter Raleigh"). This book explores the intertextual phenomenon that... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...printed in the first edition of The Faerie Queene in 1590, Spenser declares that "the generall end ... of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Spenser claims both a moral duty and a rhetorical power to inform and reform the subjectivities of... | |
 | Michael F. N. Dixon - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 260 pages
...with a Castiglionian «arraffo21 for the epic expressed in Spenser's letter to Raleigh: "The general! end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in verruous and gentle discipline." That "end" is rhetorically complex since the "noble person" he aims... | |
 | Emilia Bazan - Fiction - 1993 - 172 pages
...in a fashion analogous to Caxton's Prologue, Spenser specifies that "The generall end" of his book "is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" (LR). 16 He declares that he is following "all the antique Poets historical!, first Homere, who in... | |
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