 | Magdalen School (University of Oxford) - 1870 - 622 pages
...to look after the metre and escape the bother of making their lines rhyme ; to such we would say — Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. If they acted upon this precept their production might perhaps be less unwieldy ; though, on second thoughts,... | |
 | John Smyth - 1879 - 104 pages
...the light that came from above, " For love is heaven ! and, heaven is love ! " CANTO THE PIEST. I. " Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which like ships they steer their courses ; " And giving to my muse the rein, She rhymes according to her vein : But they who would the muse... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 pages
...and boast As if we had gained by being lost. D1STICHS AND SAWS. [From Hudibras and Miscellanies.] (1) Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which like ships they steer their courses. (2) In the hurry of a fray Tis hard to keep out of harm's way. (3) Honour is like a widow, won With... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 pages
...and boast As if we had gained by being lost. DISTICHS AND SAWS. [From Hudibras and Miscellanies.1 (1) Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which like ships they steer their courses. (2) In the hurry of a fray 'Tis hard to keep out of harm's way. (4) Great commanders always own What's... | |
 | Definitions - 1881 - 160 pages
...than his natural size. — O — I Resignation — Putting God between one's self and one's grief. Rhyme — " The rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses." Butler. Riches — " Are the baggage of Virtue ; they cannot be spared nor left behind, but they hinder... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 270 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. 465 An equal stock of wit and valour He had laid in ; by birth a tailor; The mighty Tyrian queen that... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...divine Shall henceforth wash the river Khiue I* Coleridge, Cologne. RHYME ...... Poetry, Verse. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Butter, Hud. \, I. ,UJ3. In praising Chloris, moons and stars and skies, Are quickly made to match... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 pages
...and boost As if we had gained by being lost. DtSTICHS AND SAWS. [From Hndibras and Miscellanies] (1) Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which like ships they steer their courses. (2) In the hurry of a fray 'Tis hard to keep oat of harm's way. '4) Great commanders always own What's... | |
 | François Rabelais - 1883 - 330 pages
...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 to restore the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...for rhyme, I think's sufficient at one time. 3867 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 27. For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. 3868 Sutler: Iludibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 463. It is not poetry that makes men poor ; For few do... | |
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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. 
