 | 1869 - 802 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1869 - 834 pages
...rhyme. In his poetry is seen, peculiarly, the truth of the hackneyed saying of Butler : For rliymc 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,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Philosophy - 1870 - 568 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...many stories high. — Fuller, Holy and Profane State. Andronicus, Ad. fin. I. [Hudibras continued For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Part i. Canto \. Line 463. And force them, though it were in spite Of Nature, and their stars, to write.... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Emotions - 1875 - 710 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.' To my... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...languish'd on the ground. POPE. The heart's still rhetorie, disclosed with eyes. SHAKSPEARE. RHYME. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. BUTLER: Hudibras. The action great, yet circumscribed by time ; The words not forced, but sliding into... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Expressions. 1 Compare Fuller, Holy and Profane State. Andronicus, aitfui. i. [Hudibras continued. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Part i. Canto i. Liiu 463. And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature, and their stars, to write.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...William Ho.jnrth ' (IT*)And when wa can with metre safe, We'll call him so ; if not, plain Kalph; (For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which like ships they steer their courses). An equal stock of wit anil valour He had laid in ; by birth a tailor. From his great ancestor there... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1877 - 362 pages
...COLERIDGE, Cologne. Rhyme. — He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty RHYME. — MILTON, Lycidиs. — RHYME the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Rhyme nor Reason— Pierre Patelin, quoted by TYNDALE (1530). SPENSER On hin Promistd Petition. PEEьE,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...languish'd on the ground. POPE. The heart's still rhetoric, disclosed with eyes. SHAKSPEARE. RHYME. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. BUTLER : Hudibras. The action great, yet circumscribed by time ; The words not forced, but sliding... | |
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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. 
