All 6 Uses of
sonnet
in
Middlemarch
- 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?†
Chpt 1 *
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- —SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.†
Chpt 3
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- —SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.†
Chpt 6
- —SHAKESPEARE: Sonnets.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(sonnet) a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme schemeeditor's notes: As an example, here is Shakespeare's 17th Sonnet:
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched meter of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.