Lowell is too elastic, impulsive, for a sonneteer. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Charlotte Smith, the sonneteer and novelist, was the daughter of. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
At that point, turning his thought around with the functional word 'Yet', the sonneteer finds consolation in friendship. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
He has been most successful in classical travesties and witty turns of language, and he has won a good place as a sonneteer. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
Paul Hayne had won already the hearts of his own readers; and had gained transatlantic meed, in Tennyson's declaration that he was "the sonneteer of America!". From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
The conceit of the sonneteer is that the fever is an enemy luxuriously lodged in the lovely person of its victim, and there insidiously plotting against her life. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
I have heard many a little sonneteer called a fine genius. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Tales] Reference
Elizabeth thoughtlessly pledged her hand to the young sonneteer. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
The sonneteer, as Kessler argues, was nothing if not conservative. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Longfellow, H. W.: a better sonneteer than either Tennyson or Browning. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning: How to Know Him] Reference
Other true poets are the sonneteer João Penha, the Parnassian Goncalves. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
As her favourite sonneteer, Santayana, writes -- lines she often quoted. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference
Daniel, accepted poet of the court, sonneteer, and companion of men of fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man in His Humor] Reference
Times had altered since then, and no sonneteer had insisted on Mr. Casaubon's leaving. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
"Bird-Understander" I wanted to say not, as an Elizabethan courtly sonneteer might have said. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
"Black demons hovering o'er his mitered head," think you, gentle sonneteer of the daffodil-marsh?. From Wordnik.com. [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference
The sonnet was however the form of composition he preferred, and as a sonneteer he will be remembered. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference
Yet this well-meaning little sonneteer sincerely felt that his verses were issued in the cause of humanity. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
I have not written on Longfellow's sonnets, for even you, impeccable sonneteer, admit that you admire them as much as I do. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on Literature] Reference
Like a sonneteer addressing his lady in the seventeenth century, he seems to use the word "cold" almost as a eulogium, and the word. From Wordnik.com. [Heretics] Reference
Petrarch the sonneteer: it is true that some of his Canzoni are not less esteemed, but not more; who ever dreams of his Latin Africa?. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Lord Byron]
I hope you did, for I should be ashamed to think that you could think to gratify me by such praise, fit only to be a cordial to some green-sick sonneteer. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
He had won considerable reputation as a sonneteer, and this was further increased by the tradition that Daniel Webster had quoted him at a state dinner in Washington. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini] Reference
He will work as hard as the careful sonneteer to give to his manner a tang of rawness and crudity; and thereby his readers are willing to forget that he is a literary man. From Wordnik.com. [Rudyard Kipling] Reference
I m ashamed to look an honest young sonneteer in the face. From Wordnik.com. [pete the parrot and shakespeare] Reference
As her favourite sonneteer, Santayana, writes ” lines she often quoted ” “Love leads me on, no end of love appears. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life]
The sonneteer whom we revere. From Wordnik.com. [Tobogganing on Parnassus] Reference
He is a lyrist and a sonneteer. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
In some starv'd hackney sonneteer, or me?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems] Reference
Shakespearean sonneteer and his humble Friend. From Wordnik.com. [On Horseback] Reference
A sonneteer. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
Page 272: "sonnetteer" changed to "sonneteer". From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1] Reference
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