 | Richard Barber - Biography & Autobiography - 1986 - 246 pages
...fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline: which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical! fiction, the which most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter, then for profite of the ensample: I... | |
 | Manfred Görlach - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 492 pages
...Which for that I conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter, then for pro- 15 fite of the ensample: I chose the historye of king Arthure, as most fitte for the... | |
 | David Hill Radcliffe - Literary Collections - 1996 - 262 pages
...fashion a gendeman or noble person in vertuous and gende discipline: Which for that I concerned shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with...men delight to read, rather for variety of matter, then for profite of the ensample" (CH, 45). On the one hand, "historical" promises a pleasant narrative,... | |
 | Emilia Bazan - Fiction - 1993 - 172 pages
...fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" by means of "an historicall fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter, then for profile of the ensample." By contrast, Malory writes to preserve tradition for its exemplifying... | |
 | Jill Kraye - History - 1996 - 350 pages
...with delight (Ars poetica 343), Spenser is swift to add that his poem is 'coloured with an historicall fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter, then for profite of the ensample'. Humanist ethics accompany humanist poetics in the 'Letter': Spenser... | |
 | Wolfgang Capito, William Roy - Humor - 1999 - 334 pages
...Which for that I conceived shoulde be most pausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter then for profite of the ensample' (Spenser xxvii). The last clause of this comment is interesting:... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...of all the book is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline: Which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter,... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - History - 2002 - 628 pages
...virtuous and gentle discipline: which for that I conceived should he most plausihle and pleasing heing coloured with an historical fiction, the which the...rather for variety of matter than for profit of the example, I chose the history of King Arthur as most tit for the excellency of his person, heing made... | |
 | Simon Brittan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 242 pages
...Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of matter, then [ie, than] for profit of the ensample: I chose the historye of king Arthure, as most fitte for... | |
 | Richard W. Barber - History - 2005 - 220 pages
...conceived 158 should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall From Knight fiction, the which the most part of men delight to read, rather for variety of to Gentleman matter, then for profite of the ensample: I chose the historye of King Arthure, as most... | |
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The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline... 
