| Francis Thynne - 1865 - 460 σελίδες
...71 (40), 3, 8. Polipus, 39/7, a fish. port, 90/68, bearing, behaviour. portrait, va 93/14, portray. "I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king, the image of a brave knight." — Preface to the Fairie Queene. presse, sb. 91/89, crowd. preste, adj. 84/34, ready. Pretus, 25 (28),... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1867 - 284 σελίδες
...coloured in his Rinaldo; the other named Politice, in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellente Poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king,...which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes: which if I finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged to frame the other part of polliticke... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1867 - 304 σελίδες
...in his Rinaldo ; the other named Potttice, in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellente Poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king,...which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes : which if I finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged to frame the other part of polliticke... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1868 - 324 σελίδες
...note.) It is worthy of remark that whereas Spenser set out with a declaration that he would display 'the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath...which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes ; ' we soon find that he wanders very far from the Aristotelian series. The first Book pourtrays Holiness,... | |
| 1868 - 798 σελίδες
...the heroes of Scott's novels are to the readers of our time ; and he purposed " to portray in him, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." This plan was to be comprised in twelve books ; and then he proposed, in case his plan... | |
| 1868 - 784 σελίδες
...the heroes of Scott's novels are to the readers of our time ; and he purposed " to portray in him, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." This plan was to be comprised in twelve books ; and then he proposed, in case his plan... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1868 - 330 σελίδες
...remark that whereas Spenser set out with a declaration that he would display 'the twelve private moral! vertues, as Aristotle hath devised ; the which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes;' we soon find that he wanders very far from the Aristotelian series. 'The first Book pourtrays Holiness,... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1869 - 308 σελίδες
...coloured in his Rinaldo : the other named Politice, in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellent Poets, I labour to pourtraict in Arthure, before he was king,...which is the purpose of these first twelve bookes : which if I finde to be well accepted, I may be perhaps encoraged to frame the other part of pollitike... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1869 - 384 σελίδες
...as the heroes of Scott's novels are to the readers of our time; and he purposed " to portray in him, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private moral virtues." This plan was to be comprised in twelve books; and then he proposed, in case his plan... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1870 - 664 σελίδες
...named Politicé, in his Godfredo. By ensample of which excellent poets, I labour to pourtray in Arthur, before he was king, the image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private Moral Virtues, as Aristotle hath devised;2 the which is the purpose of these first twelve books : which... | |
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