 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. This is the frame of the whole work, which is a singular mixture of classical notions,...  Confessio Amantis of John Gower - Page xxxiiiby John Gower - 1857Full view - About this book
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 626 pages
...the lover's confession. This is the frame of the whole work, which is a singular mixture of classical notions, principally borrowed from Ovid's Ars Amandi,...idea, that as a good Catholic the unfortunate lover must state his distress to a father confessor. This is done with great regularity and even pedantry... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1861 - 636 pages
...whole work, which is a singular mixture of classical notions, principally borrowed from Ovid's Are Amandi, and of the purely medieval idea, that as a good Catholic the unfortunate lover must state his distress to a father confessor. This is done with great regularity and even pedantry:... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1862 - 578 pages
...whole work, which is a singular mixture of classical notions, principally borrowed from Ovid's Are Amandi, and of the purely medieval idea, that as a good Catholic the unfortunate lover must state his distress to a father confessor. This is done with great regularity and even pedantry... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1863 - 564 pages
...the lover's confession. This is the frame of the whole work, which is a singular mixture of classical notions, principally borrowed from Ovid's Ars Amandi,...idea, that as a good Catholic the unfortunate lover must state his distress to a father confessor. This is done with great regularity and even pedantry... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1867 - 542 pages
...the lover's confession. This is the frame of the whole work, which is a singular mixture of classical notions, principally borrowed from Ovid's Ars Amandi,...idea, that as a good Catholic the unfortunate lover must state his distress to a father confessor. This is done, in the course of the confusion, with great... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1867 - 550 pages
...the lover's confession. This is the frame of the whole work, which ia a eingular mixture of elassical notions, principally borrowed from Ovid's Ars Amandi, and of the purely medieval idca, that as a good Catholic the unfortunate lover must state his distress to a father confessor.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1868 - 562 pages
...whole work, which is a singular mixture ot classical notions, principally burrowed from Ovid's Ara Amandi, and of the purely medieval idea, that as a good Catholic the uufurttma.Ce lover must state his distress to a father confessor. This is done, in the course of the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1869 - 558 pages
...work, which is a singular mixture of classical notions, principally borrowed from Ovid's Ars Amandit and of the purely medieval idea, that as a good Catholic the unfortunate lover must state hia distress to a father confessor. This is done, in the conrse of the confession, with... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1870 - 554 pages
...whole work, which is a singular mixture of classical notions, principally borrowed from Ovid's Ara Amandi, and of the purely medieval idea, that as a good Catholic the unfortunate lover must state his distress to a father confessor. This is done, in the course of the confession, with... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - American literature - 1870 - 552 pages
...work, which ia a singular mixture of classical notions, principally borrowed from Ovid's Ara Am'tidi, and of the purely medieval idea, that as a good Catholic the unfortunate lo^er must state his distress to a father confessor. This is done, in the course of the confession,... | |
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