...exemplified 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...

...not 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...

...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 fiction, the 'which...

...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"...

...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 historical fiction, the which the most...

...his high aim appears from the explanatory letter to Raleigh, that " the general end of all the Booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline,*' and thus he " moralized in song." In all his laments too — heart-broken as he probably was — is...

...s. XII. In the letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, he informs us, "that the general end of all the hooks is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." This was a noble design; but whether, at this period, an uninterrupted series of knightly adventures...

...commanded,) to discover unto you the general intention and meaning, which in the whole course thereof I have fashioned, without expressing of any particular...gentleman or noble person, in vertuous and gentle discipline;—which for that I conceived should be most plausible and pleasing, being coloured with...

...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...

...famished 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...