...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...

...aristocratic intention is openly acknowledged. " The generall end of all the booke," wrote Spenser, " is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." 1 The problem was held to be of paramount importance, and many a treatise in Latin, Italian, French,...

...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. ... I chose the historie of King Arthure, as most fit for the excellencie of his person, beeing made...

...thought good ... to discover unto you the geiierall intention and meaning. . . . The generall end . . . is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline. Which for that I conceived shoul.de 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, beeing coloured with an historicall...

...as " a continued Allegory, or darke conceit," must have its general intention clearly set forth : it is " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Such a moral, the poet goes on, should be " coloured with an historical] fiction, the which the most...

...portrait of Kjartan may look as if it were designed, like the portrait of Amadis or Tirant the White, " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." Sometimes the story is involved in the ordinary business of Icelandic life, and Kjartan and Bolli,...

...of Wisedome." The Faerie Queene is the flower of the school in England, with its confessed attempt " to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline" by uniting "the twelve private morall vertues" of Aristotle with the graces of chivalry. There is a...

...pupil's requirements. It is curious to find Spenser telling us that the aim of his "Faerie Queen" was "to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline," by showing how the twelve moral virtues of Aristotle are set forth in the lives of twelve knights....

...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 ill vertuous and gentle discipline : which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing,...