 | 1815 - 892 Seiten
...in the favourite poet of the Faery Queene, who tells us, that " the general end of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline;" but, we believe, scarcely any standard poem, whether of antiquity or of modern timf s, not excepting... | |
 | 1834 - 918 Seiten
...merely of the king's but of God's creating — tells us that " the general end of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Perhaps — though we hope not — you may have read Lord Chesterfield. It was the " general end" of... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 294 Seiten
...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 conceiued shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical... | |
 | 1834 - 896 Seiten
...merely of the king's • but of God's creating — tells us that " the general end of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Perhaps — though we hope jiot — you may have read Lord Chesterfield. It was the " general end"... | |
 | 1841 - 572 Seiten
...accomplishments, in elegance, and in manly virtues, from the reality. His object, as he has himself told us, was, to " fashion a gentleman, or noble person, in vertuous and gentle discipline;" and again, "Ilaoour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected... | |
 | John Mitchel - 1845 - 266 Seiten
...nation, he began inditing that solemn and tender strain, the intent of which he has informed us is " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," — nay, he drew inspiration from the hideous Golgotha that lay around him ; and when his Merlin tells... | |
 | 1999 - 528 Seiten
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 | James Wills - 1847 - 484 Seiten
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 | Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd - 1845 - 654 Seiten
...particular purposes, or by-accidents, therein occasioned. The general end therefore of all the Booke is h no hope of happinesse or blis. " How manie great ones may remembred be : which for that I concerned shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical... | |
 | 1852 - 784 Seiten
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The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline... 
