 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 388 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... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...I may be excused, to give the opinions of these reigns, in their usual quaint versification, " For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which like ships, they steer their courses." HCDIBHAS. It gives the reader a fuller view, Of what is curious, wise, and true. THE WIDOW'S WARNING.... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...'tis all one : And when we can with metre safe, V'H :•"! ! call him so . if not, plain Kalnh ; (For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses). An equal stock of wit and valour He hod laid in; by birth a tailor. The mighty Tyrian queen, that gaiu'd... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...I may be excused, to give the opinions of these reigns, in their usual quaint versification, " For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which like ships, they steer their courses." HUDIBRAS. It gives the reader a fuller view. Of what is curious, wise, and true. THE WIDOW'S WARNING.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think 's sufficient at one time. BUTLER'S Hudibrtu. 6. And rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 7. Read, meditate, reflect, grow wise — in vain ; Try every help, force fire from... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 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,) An equal stock of wit and valour, He had laid in, by hirth a taylor. The mighty Tyrian Queen, that... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1848 - 238 pages
...rhyme an improvement in versification, he would view it somewhat after the manner of Hudibras:— " For rhyme the rudder is, of verses,. With which, like ships, they steer their courses." It is quite certain, that whatever versification may gam from the help of rhyme, it certainly is apt... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 558 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... | |
 | James Roche - 1850 - 572 pages
...badinage;" 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'rhiiHiint je fais rondeaux en rime, Et en rimant, bien souvent je m'enrime,"... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - Hawaii - 1851 - 446 pages
...have the largest squeak that Crispin could manufacture, even if it cost as high as a dollar. Now, As rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses, we might say of this our Hawaiian knight of the squeak, with a slight accommodation, what Butler did... | |
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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. 
