amorist
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The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.
From Time Magazine Archive
The marquis was a great lord and a brave captain, but long past his first youth; his actions went somewhat too deliberately ever to be roused to the high lunacies of the Sestian amorist.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell
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
The other, under the title of "Eloisa to Abelard," versifies the Latin letters of that distinguished amorist to her lover.
From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
That was a bad day's work for Messer Cino the amorist; Apollo and the Muses limped in rags, and Mars was the only God worth thinking about, except on Sundays.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
