 | Alexander Bain - 1865 - 660 pagina’s
...rhyme the rudder is of Teraes, "With which, like ships, they steer their courses." who never dream't that there was any person or party, practice or opinion, derided in them.' To my mind, on the contrary, there is an obvious degradation of the poetic art ; instead of working... | |
 | 1866 - 390 pagina’s
...Ralpho, 'tis all one ; *» And when we can, with metre safe, We'll call him so ; if not, plain Ralph ; (For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses) : An equal stock of wit and valour us He had laid in, by birth a tailor. The mighty Tyrian queen, that... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pagina’s
...save the Athenian walls from ruin bare. HILTON. Sonnet, When the Assault was intended to the City. FOR Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which like ships they steer their courses. Hudibras, Parti., Canto 1. HOUD, hold, quoth she, no more of this, Sir Knight ; you take your aim amiss... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pagina’s
...power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Ehine ? Coleridge. Cologne. BHYME— see Poetry, Vens. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Butler, HuJ. \, I. 463. In praising Chloris, moons and stars and skies, Are quickly made to match her... | |
 | 1868 - 854 pagina’s
...Shetoric, adduces the following instance : ' Many," he says, 'have laughed at the queerness of tho comparison in these lines (from Hudibrat) : For rhyme...dreamed that there was any person or party, practice or opiuion, derided in them.' But in addition to the agreeable surprise caused by the novelty of the comparison,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 902 pagina’s
...in them. ' Many,' he says, ' have laughed at the queerness of the comparison in these lines, — " For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses." who never dream't that there was any person or party, practice or opinion, derided in them.' Now, on the contrary,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 578 pagina’s
...rhyme the rudder is of verses, AVith which, like ships, they steer their courses." whe never dream't that there was any person or party, practice or opinion, derided in them.' Now, on the contrary, there is an obvious degradation of the poetic art ; instead of working under... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pagina’s
...good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. SHAKSPEABE. RHYMES. Ehyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. BUTLEK. And those who write in rhyme still make The one verse for the other's sake ; For one for sense,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 904 pagina’s
...says, ' have laughed at the queemess of the comparison in these lines, — " For rhyme the rudder it of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses." who never dream't that there was any person or party, practice or opinion, derided in them.' Now, on the contrary,... | |
 | 1869 - 802 pagina’s
...they run to rhyme. In his poetry is seen, peculiarly, the truth of the hackneyed saying of Butler : For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. He will sometimes follow out an idea that was suggested by a rhyme through two or three lines. He,... | |
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tis all one ; And when we can, with metre safe, We'll call him so ; if not, plain Ralph : (For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses) j An equal stock of wit and valour He had laid in, by birth a tailor. 
