 | John Bell - 1797 - 722 pages
...'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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1811 - 544 pages
..."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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...j, 'tis all one ; A»d when we can, with metre safe, Well call him to ; 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 He had laid m, by birth a tailor. Tt« mighty Tynan queen, that gain'd... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...necessity to 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... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 666 pages
...represented in Fig. Q. 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 465 He had laid in, by birth a tailor. The mighty Tyrian queen, that... | |
 | 1814 - 258 pages
...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...favour. It can boast no alliance with those great masters of fine writing, the Greeks and Romans. Homer and Virgil knew nothing of rhyme ; and had they... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 548 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 pages
...Ralpho, 'tis all one: 460 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, He had laid in, by birth a tailor. ,;ol oT The mighty Tyrian Queen,... | |
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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. 
