 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1909 - 612 pages
...is to be carried out : The generall end therefore of all the booke (he says in his letter to Ralegh) is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline : Which for that I conceived shonlde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1909 - 544 pages
...particular purposes or by-accidents therein occasioned. The generall end therefore of all the boolie is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline : Which for that I conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...eyes. (32) 99. oj— according as. (33) THE FAERIE QUEENE. "The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman, or noble person, in vertuous and gentle discipline. Which for that I conceived shouldc be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...The Later Renaissance, p. 185. THE FAERY QUEEN 1590-96 The generall end therefore of all the booke is to 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 historicall... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1909 - 536 pages
...parttcular purposes or by-accidents therein occasioned. Qac generall end there. ,..,3 fore of all the Inc>ke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline^lVhich for that I conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being colouredwith an... | |
 | Floris Delattre - English poetry - 1912 - 248 pages
...The generall end of all the booke," Spenser wrote in his prefatory letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline ; " while, some years before, in the course of his famous conversation with his friend Ludowick Bryskett,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Renaissance - 1912 - 300 pages
...greatest theological thinker in Hooker and its greatest master of method in Bacon, he makes it his object "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." It is not the least noteworthy thing about his palace of dainty devices that, built though it seems... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Friendship - 1912 - 424 pages
...And when it is remembered that Spenser declares it to be the " generall end " of his greatest poem " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," who can doubt that the ideal before his mind was this friend Sidney, who had then no equal in this... | |
 | William Arkwright - 1913 - 226 pages
...Spenser's noble apology for an allegory will perhaps avail mine also : " The general end of all the booke, is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." THE THIEF THE THIEF THE THIEF HE was the dearly loved child of a young widow, who herself had been... | |
 | Ernesto Cesare Longobardi - 1913 - 270 pages
...letter to Rajeigh, the author thus draws the general plan of his poem : « The generall end of the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline. And as Homere in the persons of Agamemnon and Ulysses hath ensampled a good governour and a vertuous... | |
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