I haven't heard Platen referred to as a poetaster. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: GHASELIG.] Reference
A poetaster paid him the following facetious tribute. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
When, however, a young Humanist poetaster at Wittenberg, named. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Luther] Reference
Sir Lewis Morris was a voluminous poetaster with a common mind. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
Macedonia, the great Cardinal Richelieu a jealous poetaster, and the great. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
"Besides, I hope to taste some of the pie, and a pie-taster should not be a poetaster.". From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference
And now we shall lay down our pen, and bid farewell for a season both to poet and to poetaster. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Wordsworth has told the story in a copy of verses which shows, like so much more of his work, how dreary a poetaster he could be. From Wordnik.com. [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference
For Phalaris was just that minute dreaming how a most vile poetaster had lampooned him, and how he had got him roaring in his bull. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of the Books] Reference
Prime-Minister, to the most callous poetaster of the Latin Quarter, and be besieged by every publisher, armed with bags full of money. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
I'm also pleased to see that they didn't include a poem by that poetaster Barack Obama, given that Moi, too, am running for President. From Wordnik.com. [MY POEM IS BETTER THAN YOURS] Reference
Indeed, we question whether the strains of any poetaster can be considered vile, when brought into comparison with this gentleman's verses. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
And art thou forced to yield, ill-fated poetaster?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference
The King was quite the vilest poetaster of his day. From Wordnik.com. [The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series] Reference
King Ludwig, himself at least a poetaster, hit upon. From Wordnik.com. [Overbeck] Reference
Danes will have it that he was an hysterical poetaster. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
To another an envious poetaster demonstrated that Venice. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference
Lewis Morris was a voluminous poetaster with a common mind. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2) His Life and Confessions] Reference
Shadwell, as the literary son and heir of this wretched poetaster. From Wordnik.com. [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06] Reference
There was a Genoese poetaster named Gasparo Murtola established in. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
The poetaster and literary hack, Whetstone, who wrote a poetical memoir of. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
"Thinkest to don thy master's wit with his livery?" snapped the poetaster. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Mortimer] Reference
She thus beheads a poetaster who tells the public that his "solemn song" is. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit of Women Fourth Edition] Reference
Frederic of Rheinsberg, the fiddler and flute-player, the poetaster and metaphysician. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
There was Martin the painter, and Proctor, alias Barry Cornwall, the poet or poetaster. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
Turgot, down to the sorriest poetaster who sent his verses to be corrected or bepraised. From Wordnik.com. [Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)] Reference
Valère, a spiteful and hypocritical poetaster, is intended partially at least for Diderot. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.] Reference
Among the accusers were a young poetaster, Melitos, the tanner Anytos, and the orator Lykon. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Miniatures] Reference
"Where's Duggan?" inquired the poetaster, affectedly; "I told him to be here to accompany me.". From Wordnik.com. [Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes] Reference
I heard that this shameless profligate, this paltry poetaster, had been named poet to the emperor. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
The consequence is that our generation knows Mulgrave chiefly as a poetaster, and despises him as such. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2] Reference
(By everyone, because I'm just a jest and a bumbling poetaster that does old psuedo neo doggerel tricks). From Wordnik.com. [Expecting Rain] Reference
Satisfactorily hoaxed by the rhymer, the Chancellor went to Pimlico in search of the clerical poetaster, and found him not. From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
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