"Rhymester" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have set my thankless service above your life, above your honor. I find the rhymester ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... somewhat irrelevant circumstances—first, that it was fought when France and England were not actually at war, but were trembling on the verge of it. The sound of the Arethusa's guns, indeed, was the signal of war between the two nations. The other fact is that an ingenious rhymester—scarcely a poet—crystallised the fight into a set of verses in which there is something of the true smack of the sea, and an echo, if not of the cannon's roar, yet of the rough-voiced mirth of the forecastle; and the sea-fight ...
— Deeds that Won the Empire - Historic Battle Scenes • W. H. Fitchett |
