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" 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... "
Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions - Page 134
edited by - 2006 - 385 pages
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Spenser's Images of Life

C. S. Lewis - 1967 - 164 pages
...introduced Holiness and Chastity, which Aristotle would never have dreamed of including among his virtues. In the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue. . .according to Aristotle . . . is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all. But...
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King Arthur: Hero and Legend

Richard Barber - 1986 - 246 pages
...image of a brave knight, perfected in the twelve private morall vertues, as Aristotle hath devised — 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...
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The Spenser Encyclopedia

Albert Charles Hamilton - 1997 - 884 pages
...Arthur is 'perfected in the twelve private morall vertues' as each of those virtues is perfected by him: 'So in the person of Prince Arthure I sette forth magnificence in particular, which vertue ... is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all' (Letter; see "magnanimity). Thus,...
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Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend

Martin B. Shichtman, James P. Carley - 1994 - 334 pages
...only of the ideal monarch-in-training but of the ideal patron 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 Aristotle and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them...
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The Arthurian Handbook

Norris J. Lacy, Geoffrey Ashe, Debra N. Mancoff - 1997 - 462 pages
...invective). Arthur himself, as Spenser notes, represents "magnificence in particular," for that virtue "is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them all." The poem can be read as chivalric or romantic narrative, as spiritual allegory, or, particularly in...
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The New Poet: Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints

Richard Danson Brown - 1999 - 308 pages
...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...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,...
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The New Poet: Novelty and Tradition in Spenser's Complaints

Richard Danson Brown - 1999 - 312 pages
...'discourse' 'at large' of a poetics of instability. 67 FQ,p.737. 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 Aristotle and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them...
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Die Namen in Edmund Spensers Versepos The faerie queene: immortal name ...

Ulrike Horstmann, Ulrich Horstmann - 2001 - 324 pages
...Raleigh" beschreibt Spenser die Bedeutung und Rolle von 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 Aristotle and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it ihcni...
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Philaster: Or, Love Lies A-Bleeding by Beaumont and Fletcher

Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 2003 - 230 pages
...encoraged, to frame the other part of polliticke vertues in his 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 Aristotle and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them...
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The Poets Defence

278 pages
...examples of the virtues which he had in mind. In that Faery Queene I 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 Aristotle and the rest) it is the perfection of all the rest, and conteineth in it them...
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