 | John Bell - 1797 - 722 sider
...'tis all one; 460 And when we can with metre safe, We'll call him so; if not, plain Ralph ; (For rbyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their course;) An equal stock of wit and valour 465 He had laid in, by birth a tailor. The mighty Tyrian... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 462 sider
...other instance. Many have laughed at the queerness of the comparison in these lines, • For rhime the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses f; who never dreamt that there was any person or'party, practice or opinion, derided in them. But as... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 sider
...ridiculing it ; and has acknowledged, that in rhyming couplets, one verse is made for the other ; and that " Rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses." If the merit of rhyme be estimated by its parentage, little can be said in its favour. It can boast... | |
 | 1811 - 544 sider
..."bosom's screen.'" To be sure, the precedi ng line ended with " between," and Butler lias told that Rhime the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Sometimes, however, they steer but badly, as when our author wrote> " It was a lodge of ample size,... | |
 | George Campbell - 1808 - 468 sider
...one other instance. Many have laughed at the queerness of the comparison in these lines, For rhime the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses * ; who never dreamt that there was any person or party, practice or opinion, derided in them. But as people are... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 sider
...Hal phi j, 'tis all one ; A»d when we can, with metre safe, Well call him to ; if not, plain Ralph ; An equal stock of wit and valour He had laid m, by birth a tailor. Tt« mighty Tynan queen, that gain'd... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 sider
...depart from the meaning of the original. For Butler's remark is as true as it is ludicrous, that ** Rhyme the rudder is of verses, " With which, like ships, they steer their courses." Accordingly, in numberless instances, we may observe in Pope a violation of Homer's sense, of which... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 548 sider
...depart from the meaning of the original. For Butler's remark is as true as it is ludicrous, that -Rhvmc the rudder is of Verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses. Accordingly, in numberless instances, we may observe in, Pope.' a violation of Homer's sense, of which... | |
 | 1814 - 258 sider
...has acknowledged, that in rhyming couplets, one verse is made for the other ; and that " Rhyme tlie rudder is of verses, With which, like, ships, they steer their courses." If the merit of rhyme be estimated by its parentage, little can be said in its favour. It can boast... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 sider
...represented in Fig. 9. A ' 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 46p He had laid in, by birth a tailor. The mighty Tyrian queen, that... | |
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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. 
