" —SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.
" —SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.
However slight the terrestrial intercourse between Dante and Beatrice or Petrarch and Laura, time changes the proportion of things, and in later days it is preferable to have fewer sonnets and more conversation.
" —SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.
" He had no sonnets to write, and it could not strike him agreeably that he was not an object of preference to the woman whom he had preferred.
Would it not be rash to conclude that there was no passion behind those sonnets to Delia which strike us as the thin music of a mandolin?
Such words had their due effect; she immediately thought the evening pleasanter than she had found it before—her humble vanity was contented—she felt more obliged to the two young men for this simple praise than a true quality heroine would have been for fifteen sonnets in celebration of her charms, and went to her chair in good humour with everybody, and perfectly satisfied with her share of public attention.
" So far her improvement was sufficient—and in many other points she came on exceedingly well; for though she could not write sonnets, she brought herself to read them; and though there seemed no chance of her throwing a whole party into raptures by a prelude on the pianoforte, of her own composition, she could listen to other people's performance with very little fatigue.
" He keeps three copies of the collected works of Shakespeare — the plays and sonnets both — including the one from his college days.
Example: At school we often learned Shakespeare's sonnets by heart and recited them in front of the class.
Example: At school we often learned Shakespeare's sonnets by heart and recited them in front of the class.
Example: At school we often learned Shakespeare's sonnets by heart and recited them in front of the class.
He wrote his beautiful long poem,Venus and Adonis,for his friend Lord Southampton,and he wrote many of his famous short poems,the Sonnets.
