...for in his letter to Raleigh he says, speaking of the Faery Queene : " The generall end, therefore, of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline"; and surely we must gain in virtue and in magnanimity if we associate with the generous and noble spirit...

...for in his letter to Raleigh he says, speaking of the Faery Queene : " The generall end, therefore, of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline"; and surely we must gain in virtue and in magnanimity if we associate with the generous and noble spirit...

...first three books published in 1590. 'The generall ende .... of all the booke,' jays the author, ' is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.' Of this, King Arthur is his exemplar, and he strives ' to pourtraict ' in him, ' before he was king,...

...first throe books published in 1590. 'The generall ende .... of all the booke,' says the author, ' is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline.' Of this, King Arthur is his exemplar, and he strives ' to pourtraict' in him, ' before he was king,...

...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 ani gentle discipline: Which for that I conceived shoulde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured...

...vanity, verie grave and profitable." Of The Faerie Queene he declares that 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 should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historicall...

...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...

...what 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 historicall...

...themselves on their morality. The aim of his book, said Spenser, was the Institution of a Gentleman : — ' to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline ' — mainly by inculcating on him the twelve private moral virtues of Aristotle, as exemplified in...

...particular purposes, or by accidents, therein occasioned. The, general) end therefore of all the boohe it to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline: Which for that I conceived shoitlde be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with an historical...