Mr. Gibson has not continued in the vein, and is confined here to a few momentary impressions, mostly in the sonnet form.
The passage I have quoted on the Ctenophors is of almost perfect lyrical beauty--not a random jotting, but an impression seized and made permanent with all the proportion and balance of a sonnet by Heredia.
We are not interested in urging that the couplet is exhausted, that the sonnet should be revived, that plays should have four or three acts, that rhyme is essential or that it is outworn, that lines should or should not be of regular lengths.
That, carrying on as he did the Lamb tradition, and expressing it in his own language, he was sometimes over-enthusiastic, every reader of his sonnet on Tourneur knows.
I remember that a few moments before the boat started a young man came on board in search of me, and gave me a letter from Gonzalo Segovia, containing a sonnet which I still cherish as one of my most precious mementos of Seville.
Remember the light play of words in "Romeo and Juliet" where the dialogue, flying nimbly back and forth, weaves a pretty sonnet about the hand.
William has since written a sonnet on this our imprisonment.
Each sonnet must be complete; and, even if one of a sequence, it should contain within itself everything necessary to the understanding of it.
But if any of us would like to form some estimate of the difficulties he has surmounted, let us sit down and try to express in a sonnet in any foreign language our own thoughts and beliefs.
To analyse the variations of the Shakesperian, Spenserian and Miltonian forms is, however, unnecessary to our present purpose, as the Sonnet Sequence we are now prefacing is based on the Petrarchan model.
The Sonnets--The origin of the sonnet form in Italy.
When I said the sonnet aloud to myself it seemed to rise out of the landscape and to incorporate itself with it again as my voice rose and fell in the wandering cadences of the verse.
How is the fundamental idea of thissonnet illustrated in The Key to Human Happiness?
Divide the sonnetinto two parts, giving each part a title.
Then I said what I have already written about the mirror, and repeated the sonnet to her.
And before I got home I had found all the pieces and put them together; and then it was a lovely little sonnet which a friend of mine had written and allowed me to see many years before.
With wayworn feet, a pilgrim woe-begone, a sonnet by Southey, 127 and note.
The piteous sobs which choke the virgin's breast, a sonnet by C.
Sonnet to Simplicity not written with reference to, 251 and note; a more complete reconciliation with C.
I never see him without my Francis's sonnet repeating itself, "The soul of honour," etc.
Whenever the danger is past, as the man in the sonnet says, We may look back on the hardest part and laugh.
Of his Latin poetry some was written at the age of seventeen; in English we have nothing, I believe, the date of which is known to be earlier than the sonnet on entering his twenty-third year.
This sonnet is conspicuous for its depth of feeling, for the spirit of its commencement, and above all, for the noble lines with which it ends; but there are surely awkward and feeble expressions in the intermediate part.
The legitimate sonnetconsists of two quatrains and two tercets; as much skill, to say the least, is required for the management of the latter as of the former.
It seems to me that the sonnets could only have come from a man deeply in love, and in love with a woman; and there is one sonnet which, from its incongruity, I take to be a purposed blind.
The sonnet of Filicaja, “Italia mia,” is known by every one who cares for this poetry at all.
He gave another proof of contempt for the false taste of some Parisian circles in the Misanthrope; though the criticism of Alceste on the wretched sonnet forms but a subordinate portion of that famous comedy.
This sonnet the editor supposes to be the twentieth, which certainly could not have been addressed to a woman; but the proof is equally strong as to most of the rest.
The sonnet of Pastorini on the imagined resistance of Genoa to the oppression of Louis XIV.
And of another sonnet to her, which he desires to have inserted, he says: "I wish to accumulate perpetuating tokens of my affection to poor Mary.
This sonnet is not worse than thousands of other such, which obtained for their fabricators the name and reputation of poets in that age of vaunted intellectual movement; and it is certainly better than the majority of them.
His chief work in poetry has been in the sonnet form, of which he has exceptional mastery.
His work in poetry has been largely in the sonnet form, of which he has a classic mastery.
To the sonnet form Lamb returned again and again, sometimes most felicitously, for two or three of his sonnets have that haunting quality which makes them remain in the mind.
Coleridge, we learn from Lamb's letters, altered the sonnet and was welcome to do so, and the poem properly appears in both of their collected works; the recension is certainly not an improvement on the original.
Pray accept a little volume, of which I have duplicate, that I may return in an equal number to your welcome presents-- I think I am indebted to you for a sonnet in the London for August.
Thus did Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet, close a sonnet which he addressed to Elia, and there is keen criticism in the few words.
In the sonnet written in the name of the Mangia of the Tower of the Campo (the figure, removed in 1780, that sounded the hours, a kind of Sienese Pasquino) to the painter Riccio.
See the finesonnet sequence entitled Niccola Pisano in Rime e Ritmi.
Sonnet after sonnet, abusing the Spaniards and extolling the French, satirising the Catholic Majesty and praising the Most Christian, appeared on the Loggia di Mercanzia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sonnet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
