Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Petrarch

The English Petrarch. Sir Philip Sidney; so called by Sir Walter Raleigh. Cowper styles him “the warbler of poetic prose.” (1554-1586.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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