| Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...fable, full of hidden meaning, and the scene is laid in an imaginary land of chivalry. His purpose was " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Each book of the poem is allegorical of some virtue, such as temperance, friendship, courtesy ; each... | |
| 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
...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,... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 pages
...Walter Raleigh, which is generally prefixed to the work, the author has explained his plan : — ' The general end 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 historical... | |
| 1874 - 1002 pages
...impersonations, 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 - 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
...expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents therein occasioned. 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, beeing coloured with an historicall... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...expressing of any particular purposes, or by accidents, therein occasioned. 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1877 - 638 pages
...expressing of any particular purposes, or by-accidents, 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 conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing,... | |
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