amorist
Example Sentences
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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is riding to his death, the fool amorist.
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
The passage has caused some critics to reproach Keats as a mere mawkish amorist indifferent to the great affairs and interests of the world.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
The other, under the title of "Eloisa to Abelard," versifies the Latin letters of that distinguished amorist to her lover.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Without the unique marvel of the mind of Dante, the poetry of Italy is at its highest in the sixteenth century of Tasso and Ariosto, not in the fourteenth century of the subtle amorist Petrarch.
From Platform Monologues by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
