Charles used the word Petrarch to stand for a poet, not thinking what lady's name he suggested; and he was surprised at the severity of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heir of Redclyffe] Reference

'In Memoriam', both in its general scheme as well as in numberless particular passages, closely recalls Petrarch; and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson] Reference

Next after Dante, the first name of importance in Italian literature is that of Francesca Petrarca, called Petrarch in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song and Legend from the Middle Ages] Reference

Some of the greatest names of Italy, such as Petrarch, Boiardo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

Petrarch is in good company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Separated at birth...by 655 years] Reference

I have dreamed of loves such as Petrarch had for Laura, Dante for Beatrice, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marion Arleigh's Penance Everyday Life Library No. 5] Reference

Messer-Grande took also the books on the table by my bed, such as Petrarch, Ariosto, Horace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference

(I need scarcely say that it is his origin, not his actual birth, which entitles us to term Petrarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes] Reference

Who ever thinks of Petrarch as the old time-worn man?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

Petrarch and Rienzi and a whole deputation of Romans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

In vain the guide-book told them about Petrarch and Laura.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference

Tasso, the operas of the second rival the charms of Petrarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

Petrarch, and Florio was nightly teaching us the lofty philosophy of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference

Petrarch and the wit of Rabelais sought her out, when she belonged to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

Our hotel was close to the river Arno, the river of Dante and Petrarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

Petrarch was truly an original; I know no one to whom he can be compared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference

Petrarch saw the apparition of the bishop of his diocese at the moment of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Ghost Stories] Reference

The story does not lack of detail, though it is noteworthy that Petrarch, in his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

Petrarch, with all his conceits, which are sometimes as cold as the snows on Mount.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference

"Lollius," a name which, however, does duty also with him, at another place, for Petrarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Petrarch was so excessive, that he could scarcely withhold what he knew was so dearly coveted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bibliomania in the Middle Ages] Reference

On one of the leaves of the door is a linear drawing of Dante, and on the other one of Petrarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

Ballanche advised her to translate Petrarch, and she even began the work, but it was never finished.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

If a volume of choice extracts were to be culled from the works of Dante, Ariosto, Petrarch, an Englishman and an.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference

Petrarch and Boccacio, and Dante, and Michael Angelo, and Raffaelle, will not bear transplanting either to Richmond or Malvern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference

IF SAMENESS IS THE MOTHER OF disgust -- as the poet Petrarch declared -- diversity is not necessarily the father of contentment.    From Wordnik.com.  [A City Room Of Many Colors] Reference

Petrarch, and the comparison between the bodily and mental digestion, if trite, is very far from being a mere superficial analogy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

Petrarch, writing to Boccaccio about Griselda, uses almost the same terms as Lady Bradshaigh, writing to Richardson about Clarissa.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

The description of the first meeting of Laura and Petrarch is perhaps the best, because the most simple and unlaboured part of his works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference