conceitful

These sonnets are as "conceitful" as the others, but the collection illustrates an early effort to turn the poetic energy into a new field, to broaden the scope of subject-matter possible in sonnet-form.

Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana Samuel Daniel 1590

Not begrudging the mosquito that infected him, Muir seemed to anticipate the Deep Ecology movement by a full century: "The universe would be incomplete without man, but it would also be incomplete without the smallest transmicroscopic creature that dwells beyond our conceitful eyes and knowledge."

Outdoor Adventures Michael J. Ybarra 2011

The collection was reissued, with very numerous additions, in 1594 under the title 'Diana; or, The excellent conceitful Sonnets of H. C.

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

In fact, the title of the 1594 edition declares that the "excellent conceitful sonnets of Henry Constable" are "augmented with divers quartorzains of honourable and learned personages;" and Sidney has been found to be one of the "honourable and learned personages" whose works were laid under contribution to make the book; but since the whole first and second decades are the same as in the earlier volume by "H.C." which contained also the King James sonnets attributed by numerous contemporaries to Henry Constable, and since as yet, beside the ten by

Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana Samuel Daniel 1590