Word: sonnet
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...bizarre present that found favor in 1946 was a sequence of fourteen sonnets lettered in Old English, and illuminated, on a sheet of parchment. What gave a fillip to the toil that went into the manufacture of the gift was the fact that each sonnet described an outing or incident the Middlebury giver had shared with the Harvard recipient...
...proceeds to quack or mouth or bleat out something which is a travesty of the beauty which has truly moved him. ... He is addicted to giving classes poems to learn by heart . . . I was put off Milton for years by a fool who made me learn the sonnet On His Blindness when I was eleven...
...goes to Mass, stands gossiping at the Guadalajara Gate, comes home to dinner at two, spends the afternoon and evening gambling, and returns at midnight, when he has supper, if there is any, makes the sign of the Cross, yawns, and goes to bed, where he tosses composing a sonnet, for he is a poet...
...strength. Why had he gone on a hunger strike in the first place? Because "a leader must set an example. As president, I am the official scapegoat of the republic." Later, he presented a piece of paper to the judge. "Your Honor, permit me to offer you my latest sonnet. It is entitled 'The Madman.' I have dedicated it to you." To most accusations of collaboration he replied: "Ce n'est que de la crême fouettée" ("It's nothing but whipped cream," i.e., baloney). Had he not belonged...
Hark, Hark, the Lark. For the more dignified, there were such things as the sonnet-writing contests held regularly in the home of Ford Madox Ford-a lively old Briton who loved to reminisce about his experiences in World War I. "It was in No Man's Land," Ford would say reflectively: "We were making a night attack. I had gone ahead to reconnoiter. I was crawling along on my-er-stomach when suddenly, above the roar of battle, I heard a sound-it was larks singing. Then I looked up and saw that it was light...