 I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised...  MacMillan's Magazine - Page 438edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...Politico in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellente Poets, 1 labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertucs, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes :... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 712 pages
...whole intention in the course of this work," he said only that he labored "to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral vertues, as Aristotle hath devised, the which is the purpose of these first twelve books; which if... | |
 | 1880 - 226 pages
...author) " is the perfection of all the rest, and containeth in it them all :" Arthur himself being " the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." He seems to pervade all space, and to be at hand to help in every emergency. For he is wandering up... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1880 - 704 pages
...allegorizing tendency is as avowed in the early as in the later writers. 'I labour,' wrote Spenser, ' to pourtray in Arthur, before he was king, the image...twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised .... In that Fairy Queen, I mean glory in my general intention, .... so in the person of Arthur, I... | |
 | 1880 - 690 pages
...allegorizing tendency is as avowed in the early as in the later writers. 'I labour,' wrote Spenser, 'to pourtray in Arthur, before he was king, the image...twelve private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised .... In that Fairy Queen, I mean glory in my general intention, .... so in the person of Arthur, I... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 pages
...King Arthur, Spenser meant once more to join both. ' By example of which excellent poets,' he says, ' I labour to pourtray in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the XII private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 626 pages
...King Arthur, Spenser meant once more to join both. ' By example of which excellent poets,' he says, ' I labour to pourtray in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the XII private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 632 pages
...King Arthur, Spenser meant once more to join both. ' By example of which excellent poets,' he says, ' I labour to pourtray in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the XII private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 634 pages
...King Arthur, Spenser meant once more to join both. ' By example of which excellent poets,' he says, ' I labour to pourtray in Arthur, before he was king, the image o1 a brave knight, perfected in the XII private moral virtues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1881 - 298 pages
...Politice, in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellent Poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes :... | |
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