 | Stowe Bucks - 1849 - 312 pages
...MS. are 348 ; the first and last leaves are missing. The writing is nearly coeval with the author. It is on this poem that Gower's reputation as a poet...effects of love by apposite stories from the ancients, 33 E 482 " EMBLESMES ET DEVISES D'AMOUR." ON VELLUM. small 4to. This curious MS. consists of twelve... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Allusions in literature - 1880 - 1246 pages
...оаяп'л lulgtity wave. — 0«ian, Otna-Morul. Confesaio Amantis, by Gower (1393), above 30,000 verses. It is a dialogue between a lover and his confessor, a priest of Venus named Genius. As every vice is unamiable, a lover must be free from vice in order to be amiable, ie... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Allusions - 1880 - 1208 pages
...high, from uceau'i nilctity ware. Confessio Amantis, by Gower {'. .;'.•:;.. above 30,OUU verses. It is a dialogue between a lover and his confessor, a priest of Venus named Genius. As every vice is una/nuiM<r, a lover must be free from vice in order to be amiable, ie... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pages
...1810. An edition, by Dr. Reinh'old Pauli, was also published in 1857. The poem is cast into the form of a dialogue between a lover and his confessor, a priest of Venus, and may be briefly described, in the words of Thomas Warton, as one in which " the ritual of religion... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - American literature - 1906 - 380 pages
...the vices of the time, and is suggested by the peasant rising of 1381. The third, his English work, is a dialogue between a lover and his confessor a priest of Venus, and in its course, and with an imitation of Jean de Meung's part of the Roman de la Rose, all the passions... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English literature - 1911 - 200 pages
...and partly as the religious and social reformer, and partly as the storyThe third, his English work, is a dialogue between a lover and his confessor a priest of Venus, and in its course, and with an imitation of Jean de Meung's part of the Roman de la Rose, all the passions... | |
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the ritual of religion is applied to the tender passion, and Ovid's Art of Love is blended with the Breviary. 