 | Edmund Spenser - Epic poetry, English - 1893 - 426 pages
...Politice in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellente Poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthure. before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes :... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 650 pages
...meant once more to join both. ' By example of which excellent poets,' he says, ' I labour to pourtray in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the XII private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve... | |
 | 1895 - 610 pages
...Politico in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellent* Poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes :... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1895 - 652 pages
...meant once more to join both. ' By example of which excellent poets,' he says, ' I labour to pourtray in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the XII private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1896 - 316 pages
...Politice, in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellent Poets, I laboure to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised : which if I find to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1896 - 312 pages
...Politice, in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellent Poets, I laboure to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised : which if I find to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - Authors, English - 1897 - 408 pages
...gentle discipline.' Of this, King Arthur is his exemplar, and he strives ' to pourtraict' in him, ' before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised.' Each ' morall vertue,' if the work had been finished, would... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - Authors, English - 1897 - 406 pages
...gentle discipline.' Of this, King Arthur is his exemplar, and he strives ' to pourtraict ' in him, ' before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised.' Each ' morall vertue,' if the work had been finished, would... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1897 - 478 pages
...disturbed, a fact which proves conclusively that the central idea, as described by Spenser, viz., " the image of a brave knight perfected in the twelve private moral virtues," though it may have been in the poet's mind before he began to write, was not the actual inspiring motive... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1897 - 808 pages
...(Jodfredo. By entample of which ercellente Poets, I labour topourtraict in Arthure, before he teas ling to leese the grosse. When the good old man used to sleepe. Hu morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised f the which is thepurpose of these first twe,ve booties :... | |
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I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised... 
