 So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth Magnificence in particular ; which vertue for that (according to Aristotle and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all...  Spenser, Daniel - Page 43edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Albert Charles Hamilton - Reference - 1997 - 884 pages
...who is the history and future of England. 'In the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue for that (according to...and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest.' Arthur, here prince because he is not yet at one with the Fairy Queen and therefore not yet King, embodies... | |
 | Martin B. Shichtman, James P. Carley - History - 1994 - 334 pages
...as well. Spenser writes to Raleigh that "in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue for that (according to...perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all" (407). For Spenser, Arthur becomes a synecdoche for all princely virtue by reason of his "magnificence"... | |
 | Richard Danson Brown - Poetry - 1999 - 312 pages
...68 Ibid. 69 Ibid. Spenser specifies that 'in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue for that (according to...them all, therefore in the whole course I mention the deedes of Arthure applyable to that vertue, which I write of in that booke. But of the xii. other vertues,... | |
 | Richard Danson Brown - Poetry - 1999 - 308 pages
...of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all, therefore in the whole course I mention the deedes of Arthure applyable to that vertue, which I write of in that booke. But of the xii. other verrues, I make xii. other knightes the patrones, for the more variety of the history.' Horace's dictum... | |
 | Ulrike Horstmann, Ulrich Horstmann - Names in literature - 2001 - 324 pages
...Arthur in der Gesamtkonzeption des Buches: So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue for that (according to...the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it ihcni all, therefore in the whole course I mention the deedes of Arthure applyable to that vertue,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 230 pages
...person, after that hee came to be king. . . So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue for that (according to...perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all' (Works, ed. FM Padelford, etc., 1, 167-8). honour then dictates. The collision of personal and public... | |
 | J. B. Lethbridge - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 404 pages
...in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue for that ... it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth...which I write of in that booke. But of the xii. other vertues, I make xii. other knights the patrons. ("Letter to Raleigh," 737) As a refinement, it is worth... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 562 pages
...and Cynthia being both names of Diana.} So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue for that (according to...them all, therefore in the whole course I mention the deedes of Arthure apply able to that vertue, which I write of in that booke. But of the xii. other... | |
 | 278 pages
...meane glory in my generall intention. So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue for that (according to...them all, therefore in the whole course I mention the deedes of Arthure applyable to that vertue. This is enlightening. Whatever we may think are the social... | |
 | William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 560 pages
...person. ... in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular; which virtue, for that (according to Aristotle and the rest) it...them all, therefore in the whole course I mention the deedes of Arthur applyable to that verture . . . But of the xii. Other vertures, I make xii. Other... | |
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