| Dissipated rascal, and venal flatterer the poetaster had always been, but never traitor. |
| The Earl of Dorset, though but a poetaster himself, knew how to appreciate the higher genius of others. |
| Besides, I hope to taste some of the pie, and a pie-taster should not be a poetaster. |
| Talbot had been that schoolfellow of William Henry already spoken of, who was a poetaster like himself. |
| Everybody of any education was either a poet or a poetaster. |
| Or is he a poetaster whose taste is overridden by the dream of a talent he has never possessed? |
