 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...  Poet Lore - Page 3621895Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan - 1859 - 332 pages
...other named Politics in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellent poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave...the which is the purpose of these first twelve books : which if I find to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encouraged to frame the other part of Politick... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...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." After saying that he conceives Arthur to have " seen in a dreame or vision the Faerie Queen,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1867 - 304 pages
...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 : which if I finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged to frame the other part of... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1867 - 284 pages
...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: which if I finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged to frame the other part of... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1868 - 330 pages
...whereas Spenser set out with a declaration that he would display 'the twelve private moral! vertues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes;' we soon find that he wanders very far from the Aristotelian series. 'The first Book pourtrays... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1869 - 308 pages
...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 : which if I finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged to frame the other part of... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 590 pages
...Arthure, before ho was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private Morall Vcrtues, as Aristotle hath devised: the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes.' After saying that he conceives Arthur to have 'seen in a dreame or vision the Faerie Queen,... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1875 - 292 pages
...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 : which if I finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged to frame the other part of... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1876 - 838 pages
...other named Politice in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellent poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave...the which is the purpose of these first twelve books : which if I find to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encouraged to frame the other part of Politick... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertucs, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes : which if I findo to be well accepted, I may bo perhaps encoraged to frame the other part of... | |
| |
