amorist
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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Faint amorist, what, dost thou think To taste Love's honey, and not drink One dram of gall? or to devour A world of sweet, and taste no sour?
From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sir Philip Sidney
He is riding to his death, the fool amorist.
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
Nor is poetry extinguished because the singer deems it his vocation to utter genuine thought, and scorns the rhyming pastimes of the simple amorist.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
The passage has caused some critics to reproach Keats as a mere mawkish amorist indifferent to the great affairs and interests of the world.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
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