 The poem opens by introducing the author himself, in the character of an unhappy lover In despair, smitten by Cupid's arrow. Venus appears to him, and, after having heard his prayer, appoints her priest called Genius, like the mystagogue in the Picture...  Confessio Amantis of John Gower - Page xxxiiiby John Gower - 1857Full view - About this book
 | John Gower - Christian ethics - 1857 - 428 pages
...the vifion of ยป Chaucer's Works, ed. Thynne, i532, fol. 375*. f Ritfon, Bibliographia Poetica, i802, p. 25. Nebuchadnezzar, and explained by the prophet...of the whole work, which is a fingular mixture of claflical notions, principally borrowed from Ovid's Ars Amandi, and of the purely medieval idea, that... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 636 pages
...The poem opens by introducing the author himself, in the character of an unhappy lover in despair. Venus appears to him, and, after having heard his prayer, appoints her priest called Genius, like the mystagogue in the picture of Cebes, to hear the lover's confession.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...The poem opens by introducing the author himself, in the character of an unhappy lover in despair. Venus appears to him, and, after having heard his prayer, appoints her priest called Genius, like the mystagogue in the picture of Cebes, to hear the lover's confession.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...The poem opens by introducing Ihe author himself, in the character of an unhappy lover in despair. Venus appears to him, and, after having heard his prayer, appoints her priest called Genius, like the mystagogue in the picture of Cebes, to hear the lover's confession.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1867 - 542 pages
...introducing the author himaelf, in the character of an unhappy lover in despair, smitten by Cupid s arrow, Venus appears to him, and after having heard his prayer, appoints her priest called Genius, like the mystagogue in the Picture of Cebes, to hear the lover's confession.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1869 - 558 pages
...poem opens by introducing the author himself, in the character of an unhappy lover in despair, smitten by Cupid's arrow. Venus appears to him, and after having heard his pmyer, appoints her priest called Genius, like the mystagogue in the Picture of Cebes, to hear the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1876 - 576 pages
...poem opens by introducing the author himself, in the character of an unhappy lover In despair, smitten by Cupid's arrow. Venus appears to him, and, after having heard his prayer, appoints her priest called Genius, like the mystagogue in the Picture of Cebes, to hear the lover's confession.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1879 - 554 pages
...poem opens by introducing the author himself, in the character of an unhappy lover in despair, smitten by Cupid's arrow. Venus appears to him, and after having heard his prayer, appoints her priest called Genius, like the mystagogue in the Picture of Cebes, to hear the lovt-r's confession.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1901 - 862 pages
...poem opens by introducing the author himself, in the character of an unhappy lover in despair, smitten by Cupid's arrow. Venus appears to him, and, after having heard his prayer, appoints her priest called Genius, like the mystagogue in the Picture of Cebes, to hear the lover's confession.... | |
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