 | William Cowper - 1836 - 406 pages
...necessity to depart from the meaning of the original ; for Butler's remark is as true as it is ludicrous, that Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Accordingly, in numberless instances, we may observe in Pope a violation of Homer's sense, of which... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Aesthetics - 1836 - 528 pages
...drollery in question. " Many 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 dreamt that there was any person or party, practice or opinion, derided in them. " If... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...immortal maid ! To guide the shaft, thy mighty hands were laid." Our witty countryman, Butler, says, that " Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses." And therefore, " Those who write in rhyme still make The one verse for the other's sake ; For one for... | |
 | John Hannah - 1837 - 46 pages
...beer ! Surely they do forget the irrefragable Canon of Butler (Hudibr. Pt. IC i. 463-4) ;— " For Rhyme the Rudder is of verses, With which, like Ships, they steer their courses." We, nevertheless, altho' supported by no codices whatever, would read, ' He smiled at the cheer,' and... | |
 | Robert Southey - Poets, English - 1839 - 382 pages
...necessity to depart from the meaning of the original; for Butler's remark is as true as it is ludicrous, that Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Accordingly, in numberless instances, we may observe in Pope a violation of Homer's sense, of which... | |
 | Robert Southey - Poets, English - 1839 - 380 pages
...necessity to depart from the meaning of the original; for Butler's remark is as true as it is ludicrous, that Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Accordingly, in numberless instances, we may observe in Pope a violation of Homer's sense, of which... | |
 | George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...bring but one other instance. Many 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 dreamt that there was any person or party, practice or opinion, derided in them. But as... | |
 | Alexander Walker - Beauty, Personal - 1840 - 434 pages
...the drollery in question. "Many 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 dreamed that there was any person or party, practice or opinion, derided in them. " If any... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...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) j An equal stock of wit and valour He had laid in, by birth a tailor. The mighty Tyrian queen, that... | |
 | English essays - 1841 - 962 pages
...I'elrgant badinage j" or of the assertion of Hudibras, rather indifferently supported by the example, " For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses." Marot thus writes, " En m'ebattant je fais rondeaux en rime, Et en rimant, bien souvent je m'enrime,"... | |
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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. 
