 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - Liczba stron: 942
...of fighting was grown rusty, And ato into itself for lack Of somebody to hew and hack. Lint 359. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Line 463. And force them, though it was in spite Of nature, and their stars, to write. Line 047. Quoth... | |
 | 1885 - Liczba stron: 686
...and boast As if we had gained by being lost. DISTICHS AND SAWS. [From Hudibras and Miscellanies. .] RHYME the rudder is of verses, With which like ships they steer their courses. In the hurry of a fray 'Tis hard to keep out of harm's way. Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1885 - Liczba stron: 530
...like endings"; but Butler, the author of Hudibraa, says they often guide the thought of the poet. " Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses." Dryden, too, admits that a rhyme often suggested to him a new idea. Rhymes are of three kinds : those... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1885 - Liczba stron: 300
...one; *$y 7 And when we can, with metre safe, v_We'll call him so, if not, plain Ralph ; 5 Fpr rhyrrie 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 birth a tailor ; / The mighty Tyrian queen that... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - 1885 - Liczba stron: 702
...pride and boast As if we had gained hy being lost. DIST1CHS AND SAWS. [From Hudibras and Miscellanies.] RHYME the rudder is of verses, With which like ships they steer theii courses. In the burry of a fray 'Tis hard to keep out of harm's way. Honor is like a widow, won... | |
 | 1887 - Liczba stron: 1332
...least noise. Ital., Sp., Par. 9. You, a river, are contending with the ocean. Latin. Rhyme. 1. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which like ships they steer their courses. Butler. 2. It's neither rhyme nor reason. Righteous. 1. Be not righteous overmuch. Bible 2. Many are... | |
 | Wilhelm Langhans - 1887 - Liczba stron: 576
...prose" oder Butt ler, der den Vers ohne Endreim mit einem steuerlosen Schiff vergleicht (. . . . „for Rhyme the rudder is of verses, with which, like ships, they steer their courses." Unter diesen Umständen konnte man freilich keine Empfindung haben für den kraftvollen Wohlklang des... | |
 | Wilhelm Langhans - 1887 - Liczba stron: 580
...prose" oder Buttler, der den Vers ohne Endreim mit einem steuerlosen Schiff vergleicht (. . . . „for Rhyme the rudder is of verses, with which, like ships, they steer their conrses." Unter diesen Umständen konnte man freilich keine Empfindung haben für den kraftvollen Wohlklang... | |
 | François Rabelais - 1890 - Liczba stron: 346
...Rabelais. Sir Thomas's translation of the prose was close and spirited, but when he came to verse he found that— " Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their.courses," and was now and then thus steered so far out of his course that I have been obliged... | |
 | 1891 - Liczba stron: 556
...root. Seiden. OP THE HEART. The heart's still rhetoric, disclosed with eyes. Shakespeare. RHYME. For rhyme, the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Sutler. RHYME AND REASON. 1. But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak? . 2. Neither rhyme nor... | |
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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. 
