 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1909 - 570 pages
...wyre: hair, stars: eyes. (32) 99. 05= 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 shoulde 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - Prefaces - 1910 - 458 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... | |
 | Jacques Carré - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 232 pages
...that his design is to colour with 'historical! fiction' the 'generall end' of the whole work, which is 'to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.' The fiction thus becomes fused with the idea of fashioning, joining together each of the twin concepts... | |
 | Gordon Teskey - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 220 pages
...This is what Spenser means in the "Letter to Raleigh" when he says that the "general! end" of his book is "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." By drawing the reader into its system, the poem "fashions" an intellectual habit. In the Enlightenment,... | |
 | David Duff - History - 1994 - 304 pages
...there is, in addition, an echo of Spenser's famous remark that the purpose of The Faerie Queene was ' to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline', 40 an aim that can be identified with the vision of an ideal prince which extends over the whole poem... | |
 | John Watkins - Poetry - 1995 - 230 pages
...and Acrasia signal Spenser's own resistance to romance conventions that might subvert his aspirations "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" ("A Letter of the Author to Sir Walter Raleigh"). This book explores the intertextual phenomenon that... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan, Peter Stallybrass - History - 1996 - 422 pages
...and printed in the first edition of The Faerie Queene in 1590, Spenser declares that "the generall end ... of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman...or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Spenser claims both a moral duty and a rhetorical power to inform and reform the subjectivities of... | |
 | Michael F. N. Dixon - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 260 pages
...Castiglionian «arraffo21 for the epic expressed in Spenser's letter to Raleigh: "The general! end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in verruous and gentle discipline." That "end" is rhetorically complex since the "noble person" he aims... | |
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