To sonnetteer is very well, but a lover, to say nothing of a jurisconsult, must live; he cannot have his throat cut if there is a way out. ❋ Maurice Henry Hewlett (N/A)
The poets whom Mr. LOWELL mostly reminds us of, in his faults, are SHELLY and SHAKSPEARE; the juvenile SHAKSPEARE, we mean -- SHAKSPEARE the sonnetteer. ❋ Various (N/A)
English contemporaries, was an incomparably superior sonnetteer. ❋ William Lyon Phelps (1904)
The shadowy mistresses who emulated the glories of Beatrice and Laura were even less substantial than they; and, though that could {132} not hinder great poets from making fine poetry out of them, it was fatal to the ordinary sonnetteer, and gave the sonnet a tradition of overblown and insincere verbiage. ❋ John Cann Bailey (1897)
'All happines' is the greeting of Thomas Watson, the sonnetteer, to his patron, the Earl of Oxford, on the threshold of ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
Every sonnetteer of the sixteenth century, at some point in his career, devoted his energies to vituperation of a cruel siren. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
In France Etienne Jodelle, a professional sonnetteer although he is best known as a dramatist, made late in the second half of the sixteenth century an independent endeavour of like kind to stifle by means of parody the vogue of the vituperative sonnet. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
The prolific sonnetteer Barnabe Barnes and the miscellaneous literary practitioner Gervase Markham confessed, respectively in 1593 and 1595, yearnings for Southampton's countenance in sonnets which glow hardly less ardently than Shakespeare's with admiration for his personal charm. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
The woman, the sonnetteer continues, has corrupted the man and has drawn him from his 'side.' ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
The superior and more evenly sustained energy of the sonnets is to be attributed, not to the accession of power that comes with increase of years, but to the innate principles of the poetic form, and to metrical exigencies, which impelled the sonnetteer to aim at a uniform condensation of thought and language. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
Repeatedly does the sonnetteer renew the assurance given there that his patron is 'part of all' he has or is. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
The last, it is true, was _always_ poor as a sonnetteer (I don't see much in the _Autumnal Moon_). ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
English sonnetteer once more betrayed his indebtedness to Desportes and his compeers. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
It was not till the spring of 1593, after Shakespeare had secured a nobleman's patronage for his earliest publication, 'Venus and Adonis,' that he became a sonnetteer on an extended scale. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
Southampton and a prolific sonnetteer, who was deemed by contemporary critics certain to prove a great poet. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
Sandro was, by a nympholepsy, or, as Lorenzo was, by the rhymer's appetite for wherewithal to sonnetteer? ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
{252} A student of imperfect memory but not of defective intuition might pardonably assign such couplets, on hearing them cited, to the master-hand itself; but such a student would be likelier to refer them to the sonnetteer than to the dramatist. ❋ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873)
He also contrived masques and wrote verses for pageants, and is said to have been the first fiddler, the most elegant sonnetteer, and the most amusing mimic of the Court. ❋ George Gilfillan (1845)
O thou bright moon! thou object of my first love! thou shalt not escape an invocation, although perchance at this very moment some varlet sonnetteer is prating of "the boy Endymion" and "thy silver bow." ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
Her name is Sonnette, she was [kind] from [the moment] I [met] her ❋ CuteWeirdo (2021)
I [met] a girl [named] Sonnette she was kind from the [start]; ❋ CuteWeirdo (2021)
