"Rhymester" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have set my thankless service above your life, above your honor. I find the rhymester ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... tell? Ah, no! the start, the jet, the bound, The giddy scamper round and round, With leap and toss and high curvet, And many a whirling somerset, (Permitted by the modern muse Expression technical to use)—These mock the deftest rhymester's skill, But poor in art, though rich ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... been very anxious, for he could not but know that if he lost his way it would be the most difficult thing in the world to find it again. 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. Well might he wish that he had brought his lamp and tinder-box with him, of which he had not thought when he crept so eagerly after the goblins! He wished it all the ...
— The Princess and the Goblin • George MacDonald
... little sympathy with this enterprise. It was ill-timed, many hundred years in advance of the times. Why emigrate from a region but just reclaimed from barbarism, where good land was still abundant?[199] Perhaps it was in reply to such doubts that an Illinois rhymester ...
— Stephen A. Douglas - A Study in American Politics • Allen Johnson
... Fairy-land." And yet, with all this self-styled unfitness for the pursuit, I was afterwards informed, that at his subsequent examination he displayed an amount of acquirement which surprised his fellow-students, who had scarcely any other association with him than that of a cheerful, crochety rhymester. ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 39, January, 1861 • Various |
