 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. Part i. Canto i. Line 215. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Part i. Canto i. Line 463. And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature, and their stars, to write.... | |
 | 1866 - 390 pages
...'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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 902 pages
...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 858 pages
...Many,1 he says, 'have laughed at the qucerness of the comparison in these lines (from Hudibras) : 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.' But in... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1868 - 340 pages
...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,... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. Part \. Canto \. Line 215. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Part i. Canto i. Line 463. And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature, and their stars, to write.... | |
 | Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling - German drama (Comedy) - 1869 - 792 pages
...îenu ítteime lenfen ftetá am Slerê SBte'n íHubct au béni ©(^iff bcn Gurê — bei Öutler: For Rhyme the Rudder is of Verses With which like ships they steer their Courses. Dber 1. 3. 1199: 3)er presbyter unb fein $)iaf 6inb SMeifter über Häf unb Sped. Ober I. 1. 240: 6ein... | |
 | John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...sake ; For one for sense, and one for rhyme, I think 's sufficient at one time. BUTLER'S Hudibrca And rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. BUTLER'S Hudibras. Read, meditate, reflect, grow wise — in vain ; Try every help, force fire from... | |
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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. 
