 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870 - 664 pages
...jealous opinions and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof (being so by you commanded), to discover unto you the general intention...without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents,1 therein occasioned. The general end, therefore, of all the book, is to fashion a gentleman... | |
 | 1899 - 998 pages
...this ancestral park. -'The generall end of all the booke," wrote Spenser of the "Faerie Queene," " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." And who but Sidney was his model ? He " impressed his own noble and beautiful character deeply on Spenser's... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1872 - 640 pages
...fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidente, therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person iu vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that I concerned shouldc be most plausible and pleasing,... | |
 | Universalism - 1874 - 1002 pages
...to enchant with interest the battle we are all engaged in. Spenser himself says, "the generall end of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Bunyan was a natural weaver of the allegorical web, to whom a religious purpose secured the worthiness... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1874 - 332 pages
...first three books published in 1590. 'The generall ende .... of all the booke," says the author, ' is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.' Of this, King Arthur is his exemplar, and he strives ' to pourtraict ' in him, ' before he was king,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1875 - 292 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... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1876 - 838 pages
...jealous opinions and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof) (being so by you commanded,) to discover unto you the general intention...course thereof I have fashioned, without expressing ot any particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 pages
...knight-errantry of his day, is an elaborate allegory, the meaning and object of which, he tells us, " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Una, who has been separated from her Redcrosse knight, the pattern Englishman, by art magic, represents... | |
 | James Wills - Ireland - 1876 - 706 pages
...misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof, (being so by you commanded,) to digcover unto you the general intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof 1 have fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes or by-accidents therein occasioned.... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1877 - 638 pages
...misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof, (being so by you commanded,) to discouer unto you the general intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I haue fashioned, without expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned.... | |
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The general! end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline... 
