...manner, when Edmund Spenser, five hundred years later, desired to write a poem, the end of which was " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," he chose the history of King Arthur, " as most fitte for the excellency of his person, being made famous...

...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 mindy was this friend Sidney, who had then no equal in this...

...Spenser's letter to Sir Walter Ealeigh, wherein he expounds the intention and meaning of his poem, he tells us that "the general end of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person." As the framework of his poem he chose the history of King Arthur, "in whom he laboured to pour tray,...

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...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 in vertuous and gentle discipline : Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall...

...caressing 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 nd gentle discipline : Which for that I conceived •""'"'< be most pfausible and pleasing, being colottred...

...an edifying story, carrying out in its own way the same design as Spenser's in the Faerie Queene — "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." This was the end of all poetry according to the doctrine of those days ; a doctrine that might easily...

...would otherwise have remained obscure. " The generall end, therefore, of all the booke," he says, " 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 historical!...

...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 historicalI...

...intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I have fashioned. . . . The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Spenser's " natural tendency is to shun whatever is sharp and abrupt," writes Lowell. " He loves to...