The Influence of Aristotle's "Politics" and "Ethics" on Spenser

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University of Chicago Press, 1918 - 70 páginas
 

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Página 8 - 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...
Página 2 - 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...
Página 50 - Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far unfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies...
Página 17 - Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave...
Página 12 - The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline...
Página 18 - Then seek this path that I to thee presage, Which after all to heaven shall thee send ; Then peaceably thy painefull pilgrimage To yonder same Hierusalem doe bend, Where is for thee ordaind a blessed end : For thou, emongst those Saints whom thou doest see, Shalt be a Saint, and thine owne nations frend And Patrone : thou Saint George shalt called bee, Saint George of mery England, the signe of victoree.
Página 40 - And all within, the riven walls were hung With ragged monuments of times forepast, All which the sad effects of discord sung : There were rent robes and broken scepters plast ; Altars defyld, and holy things detast : Disshivered speares, and shields ytorne in twaine ; Great cities ransackt, and strong castles rast : Nations captived, and huge armies slaine : Of all which ruines there some relicks did remaine.
Página 4 - I lias, the other in his Odysseis: then Virgil, whose like intention was to doe in the person of Aeneas: after him Ariosto comprised them both in his Orlando: and lately Tasso dissevered them againe, and formed both parts in two persons...
Página 56 - WHAT man that sees the ever-whirling wheele, Of Change, the which all mortall things doth sway, But that therby doth find, and plainly feele, How MUTABILITY in them doth play Her cruell sports to many mens decay...
Página 29 - But temperance (said he) with golden squire Betwixt them both can measure out a meane, Neither to melt in pleasures whot desire, Nor fry in hartlesse griefe and dolefull teene.

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