单词 | rhymester |
例句 | And in truth, many and many a poet, even to “Joanna Bailey,” the morning rhymester, has been of the same mind. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z We need not, however, take the matter seriously: the rhymester was only at his wit’s end for a rhyme to “beef.” The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z I do not deny that these extempore rhymesters may be people of culture and learning, qualified to discourse well upon the themes proposed to them. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z The young gentleman who is a rhymester himself, grows interested. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z See now my sacred heritage, the prey Of ribald rhymesters, sensuous, half obscene; Of gloating censors, glad o'er my decay, And deeming all but best I ne'er had been! Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z It was half filled with amatory verses by juvenile rhymesters, and with tasteless insipid drawings in water colours, by boarding-school misses: which drawings my Dulcinea persisted in calling paintings. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Have not all the rhymesters of the period sung the praises of her eyes? The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z How much pleasanter than the grim dictum of an elder rhymester, who referred to your people as those "Whom nature hath predestined for our foes, And made it bliss and virtue to oppose." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, November 5, 1887 2011-09-19T02:00:10.183Z He is a practical bird—no such dreamy, twilight sort of a thing as the whippoorwill, who is forever complaining about nothing, like a miserable rhymester—whir—whir—whir. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Barton was not entitled to the "handle" which the Elizabethan rhymester prefixes to his name: he was not a knight, though he might very possibly have become one, had he lived. Privateers and Privateering 2011-06-21T02:00:26.477Z In his love lyrics, and but rarely save in them, the Sicilian popolano rises from the rhymester to the poet. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z He, therefore, proposed emendations in “the rules of Welsh verse,” making them more strict, so as to keep the unlearned rhymesters from the privileged bardic class. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Wace, a canon of Bayeux and a prolific rhymester, expressly states that his works were composed for the "rich gentry who had rents and money." Women of England But politics dominated thought, and the wits were as bitter partisans as they were clever rhymesters. Noah Webster American Men of Letters Any innovation on the stereotyped methods appealed to him with the grace and relish of a new metre to a neophytic rhymester. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Love is sought by every miserable rhymester who cannot live without being idolized by some one. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature The kinship betwixt these styles lies in their essentially fanciful character, as distinguished from the tiresomely commonplace realism of the average modern rhymester. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Thus Benjamin soon became a fluent rhymester, and wrote sundry ballads which were sold in the streets and became quite popular. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series During the campaign the local rhymesters and writers were very busy concocting electioneering “squibs;” and, young as I was, I tried my ’prentice hand along with the rest. Adventures and Recollections "We are both rhymesters," he added with a smile. Nancy Stair A Novel Better be contented with the easy vernacular solution of the rhymester: "Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Evils from circumstances grow." Somehow Good The vagrant Singer, how does he, good Lord, Compete with such a money-making Horde Of tinsel rhymesters that infest the Shops? The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne One would not quite demolish The graphic rhymester's stock-in-trade, But if bare knees must be displayed, He might forego the polish. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 Not that the latter does not sometimes rise even to wrath, but it is a wrath which savors of labor and which he pursues as a rhymester would a rebellious epithet. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 But then the lordly rhymester railed at Landor, One of the Swinburne fetishes, enough To prove that all he wrote was soulless stuff— But stop! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887 The trouble is, that the early rhymesters have used up the only side of the question capable of poetical treatment. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science The sonorous rhymesters in praise of "A Life on the Ocean Wave," "The Sea! the Sea! the Open Sea!" &c. were probably never out of sight of land in a gale in their lives. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. His style is often as artificial as that of any of its rhymesters: it is full of inversions, freighted with long, formal words, and still more marred by others of a false dilettante ring. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science But we have to believe that it is only a story, for no copy of the book can be found, and nothing but tradition identifies Elizabeth Goose, the Boston grandmother, with the famous rhymester. Mother Goose The Original Volland Edition It is a pity fools are prone to scribble, Such pigmy rhymesters as sincerely yours, Who flabbergast their nursery-maids and dribble All down their literary pinafores. The Minstrel A Collection of Poems But, O ye tomes without compare, Which from the devil's bookcase start, Albums magnificent which scare The fashionable rhymester's heart! Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse A poet is always a dead rhymester,—a philosopher, a dead dreamer. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills Of all rhymesters of the "Road," however, Dean Burrowes is, as yet, most fully entitled to the laurel. Rookwood The scurrilous ballad of which we have already spoken was by one Ned Ward, a publican and rhymester, and it pictured the entry of the duke in verses after the fashion of Hudibras. A History of the Four Georges, Volume I And the injured rhymester exclaimed when he read the inscription: ‘You deface every book you give me.’ The Bibliotaph and Other People So list ye the song of the Bois-Brulés, Of their glorious deeds in the days of old, And this is the tale of the buffalo hunt Which I, Pierre, the rhymester, have proudly told. Lords of the North His Endymion is not a Greek shepherd, loved by a Grecian goddess; he is merely a young Cockney rhymester, dreaming a phantastic dream at the full of the moon. Early Reviews of English Poets It was commemorated by Isaac Squire, an Otsego rhymester, in some verses that are of curious interest as a survival of the old ballad form in which events were wont to be celebrated. The Story of Cooperstown The question for Shelley is not at all what will look nicest in his song; that is the preoccupation of mincing rhymesters, whose well is soon dry. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Everything was wild and irregular except rhymesters in toupees. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century List you now to a tale of truth Which I, Pierre, the rhymester, proudly sing, Of the Bois-Brulés, whose deeds dismay The hearts of the soldiers serving the king! Lords of the North He is no ordinary rhymester, struggling feebly in the bonds of convention. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892 Monosyllables were also very convenient for the formation of compound words, and, it was argued, should, when properly managed, be an asset rather than a handicap to the English rhymester. An apology for the study of northern antiquities The Tuscan rhymester, again, allows himself the utmost licence. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Mr. Dulcet, however, in his superb free verse, has scaled olympian heights, disdaining the customary twaddling topics of the rhymesters. Mince Pie While never a rhymester, Cooper, in his early manhood and at rare times after, did write occasional sentimental and comic verses that betokened both clever imagination and other merit. James Fenimore Cooper I find the rhymester glorious and very vile.” Chivalry Except Campion, who is a discovery of our own day, not a single Elizabethan or Jacobean rhymester of the second or third rank escapes his notice. Gossip in a Library "What one wants in a husband is not so much a rhapsodist as a rhymester, not so much a lover as a walking-gentleman—Pierre is that, you know." Madcap I swear that no muse-stricken rhymester ever reads his own last poem with more delight than I do what you write to me about matters public or private, town or country. Cicero Ancient Classics for English Readers Morning would bring no light into these regions; and towards him least of all, who was known as a special rhymester and persecutor, could goblins be expected to exercise courtesy. The Princess and the Goblin Lord Byron, with his soliloquising, high-souled thieves, has, in a slight degree, perverted the taste of the greenhorns and incipient rhymesters of his country. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 No Muse will cheer with renovating smile, The paralytic puling of Carlisle; What heterogeneous honours deck the Peer, Lord, rhymester, petit-maitre, pamphleteer! The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 And now I can but say, with that witty rhymester, whom everybody in London quotes— 'Love in your heart as idly burns, As fire in antique Roman urns.' London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Shakespeare was thinking of himself, the dramatist-poet, who was indeed a chronicle of the time; but the courtier Lord Polonius would not care a dam for a rhymester's praise or blame. The Man Shakespeare You frighten these rhymesters, who feel themselves to be unworthy of so great a theme. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice The King of Bavaria, a rhymester of some celebrity, has taken a good many poetical licences in his time. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 Of all rhymesters of the 'Road,' however, Dean Burrowes is, as yet, most fully entitled to the laurel. Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] He was a cosmopolite and a rhymester and a press agent and a journalist. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Undoubtedly there is a vast difference between the village rhymester and the true poet, and the poetry I am now concerned with may be said to come somewhat between these two extremes. A Traveller in Little Things It is done unconsciously by many a simple rhymester whose verses are bought by Sulphites and read with glee. Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use But, as we have already seen, he was the Puritan poet, and affected every rhymester of the time, to a degree which it required generations to shake off. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Republican rhymesters exhausted their wit in describing how "Brave Hamilton, our warrior bold, Strove Adams in the chair to hold, By mustering sense, and spleen, and wit, To prove him totally unfit." The United States of America, Part 1 According to the rhymester it was: A rock by the way- A spot in the circle of white- A grey, craggy spur plunging stark through the deep-splintered ice. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 He could see nothing in common between the splendid gentleman who now addressed him and the ragged rhymester who shared so many squalid adventures with him, and in an instant he averted his head respectfully. If I Were King And when every rhymester has walked the plank, shall we still put up with our relations? Pagan Papers I shall even dare to advance the statement that together with the respect for the Sabbath, the last spark of poetic fire has been extinguished in the soul of our rhymesters. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Ideas breed vocables; but seldom, except among rhymesters, does a vocable give birth to a popular idea: and in Arabic “Sibr,” as well as “Sabr,” is the name of the Aloe. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 He recurs to my mind now in connection with a witty fling at "Nabucco" made by a French rhymester when Verdi's opera was produced at Paris in 1845. A Second Book of Operas With none of the goddesses whose traditional charms have become coldly classic would the discerning rhymester have compared her. Cabbages and Kings I perceived at the end of a certain time, that I lacked something in every direction; and seeing that I was good for nothing, of my own free will I became a poet and rhymester. Notre-Dame De Paris ‘Pah!’ muttered Patrick; ‘as though the King would be no better than a wandering minstrel rhymester!’ The Caged Lion The boy is almost always ruthless, unbroken, unmanageable, a ribald rhymester, impudent, greedy, and idle. Colonel Chabert In 1537, when she was thirty-eight years of age, a rhymester of Champagne named Jean Voute, published a collection of Latin verses in which were three epigrams upon her. Catherine De Medici He stands out among contemporary rhymesters—magazine rhymesters—as a gladiator stands out in the midst of a band of eunuchs.” Martin Eden At best he is a mere rhymester, to whom rhyme and metre, even when self-chosen, were as uncongenial accoutrements “as Saul’s armour was to David.” The Life of John Bunyan |
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