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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... "
English Men of Letters: Chaucer, by Adolphus William Ward, 1896; Spenser, by ... - Page 122
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Britomart

Edmund Spenser - 1903 - 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...
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Calendar of the University of Sydney

University of Sydney - 1903 - 662 pages
...Apologie far Pottrie (about 158<V. What grounds were there for this compla nt? 7. " The generall end of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Explain, illustrate, and discuss this purpose of the Faerie Queene. B. 1. Examine the charge of irreverence...
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Selections from Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser - Knights and knighthood - 1905 - 206 pages
...gealous 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 2 accidents, therein occasioned. The generall ead therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman...
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Stephen Hawes' "Passetyne of pleasure" verglichen mit Edmund Spenser's ...

Friedrich Zander - Faerie queene - 1905 - 120 pages
...Seven Sciences and the Course of Mans Life in this Worlde." Sp. in seinem erwähnten4 Briefe5 erklärt: „The generall end therefore of all the booke is...or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." 1) P. o. Pl. 31 IV 6. 2) P. o. Pl. 38 III l ff. 3) Vgl. hierzu seinen Prolog P. o. Pl. 2 II 6 ff. 4)...
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Introduction to English Literature, with Suggestions for Further Reading and ...

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...what 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 historic of King Arthure, as most fit for the excellencie of his person, beeing made...
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The Torch: Eight Lectures on Race Power in Literature Delivered Before the ...

George Edward Woodberry - English poetry - 1905 - 236 pages
...individual's life. Spenser states his purpose in the preface: "The general end," he says, "of all the Book is to fashion a gentleman, or noble person, in vertuous and gentle discipline. " It is the very problem before each of us in education: "to fashion a gentleman. " Spenser's plan,...
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The Heart of Oak Books: Sixth Book

Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1906 - 416 pages
...and misconstructions, as also for your better light in reading thereof (being so by your command), to discover unto you the general intention and meaning,...which in the whole course thereof I have fashioned. . . . The generall end therefore of all the booke Is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous...
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Literary By-Paths in Old English

Henry C. Shelley - 1909 - 426 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...
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Literary By-paths in Old England

Henry Charles Shelley - England - 1906 - 430 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...
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A Literary History of the English People from the Renaissance to the Civil ...

Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1906 - 594 pages
...aristocratic intention is openly acknowledged. " The generall end of all the booke," wrote Spenser, " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." 1 The problem was held to be of paramount importance, and many a treatise in Latin, Italian, French,...
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