It was not till after the Reformation had lessened the superstitious veneration for the Latin tongue that the laureates began to write in English.
It had long been customary in the universities to crown scholars when they graduated with laurel, and Warton thinks that from these the first poet laureates were selected, less for their general genius than for their skill in Latin verse.
There is an uninterrupted canon of the Laureates running as far back as the reign of James I.
After that lofty encomium from such authority, may we venture to observe that among the laureates of Italy there is one still greater poet than the Recluse of Avignon?
To Laureates is no pity due, Encumber'd with a thousand clogs?
But if we proceed from Apollo, our chapter on laureates will be longer than the tail of a comet.
Petrarch and Tasso appear to be the only distinguished laureatesof Italy.
But our main business is with the laureates of England; and the origin of their office is sufficiently obscure, and not the less worthy of consideration for the antiquity that such obscurity implies.
The paralysing conventions from which the laureates of BaghdAid and Aleppo could not emancipate themselves remained in full force at Cordova and Seville.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laureates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
