Isaac Hawkins Browne was a poetaster of some little celebrity in the last century. |
Talbot had been that schoolfellow of William Henry already spoken of, who was a poetaster like himself. |
Dissipated rascal, and venal flatterer the poetaster had always been, but never traitor. |
Everybody of any education was either a poet or a poetaster. |
Besides, I hope to taste some of the pie, and a pie-taster should not be a poetaster. |
The Earl of Dorset, though but a poetaster himself, knew how to appreciate the higher genius of others. |