If he imitates, he ceases for the time to be a poet, degenerates into a rhymster, and his flowers upon close inspection will be found to have been fabricated from muslin. ❋ Various (N/A)
The humorists, ever stirred by novelty, tilted, pen in hand, at these new drinks: thus one rhymster described coffee as ❋ Arthur William Knapp (N/A)
As an example of the change in public sentiment with the lapse of time, we learn that this noted clergyman was a distiller as well, of whom a witty rhymster wrote: -- ❋ Harriet Manning Whitcomb (N/A)
"Good, Bill, good!" shouted Claud, gripping the rough rhymster by the hand. ❋ R. W. Campbell (N/A)
"I am a bit of a rhymster, as thou knowest," he said. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)
The authorship of the song was afterwards claimed by William Glass, [13] an obscure rhymster of the capital. ❋ Various (N/A)
He pointed out the dangers inherent in a restricted rhyme, and cited the case of Browning, the great rhymster, who was prone to resort to any rhyme, and frequently ended in absurdity, finding it easier to make a new verse than to make an end. ❋ Unknown (1919)
_ Heaven bless the rhymster who first penned those words. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
A rhymster of the day celebrated the fact in a song, of which the following couplet was the refrain: ❋ Unknown (1905)
This one poor rhymster, having burnt his own rhymes, began to live that life of open air and acted poetry of which all the poets of the earth have dreamed in vain; the life for which the Iliad is only a cheap substitute. ❋ Unknown (1905)
At that Father Holland burst in such roars of laughter, the rhymster took personal offense, dug his moccasins against the horse's sides and rode ahead. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Grant's company came Pierre, the rhymster, bubbling over with jingling minstrelsy, that was the delight of every half-breed camp on the plains. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Endymion is not a Greek shepherd, love of a Grecian goddess; he is merely a young Cockney rhymster, dreaming a phantastic dream at the full of the moon. ❋ R. Brimley Johnson (1899)
Browning, the great rhymster, who was prone to resort to any rhyme, and frequently ended in absurdity, finding it easier to make a new verse than to make an end. ❋ John McCrae (1895)
I am now fairly entitled to the reputation of being a jolty rhymster. ❋ Prentiss, George L (1882)
For this turbulence Alexyéi Sergyéitch gave orders that the rhymster should be flung out of the house, after he had preliminarily been rolled in the snow (it happened in the winter), to sober him. ❋ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1850)
Chatelet, thought in his heart that this slip of a rhymster would wither incontinently in a hothouse of adulation; perhaps he hoped that when the poet's head was turned with brilliant dreams, he would indulge in some impertinence that would promptly consign him to the obscurity from which he had emerged. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
To feel the full glory of the sun, the joy of the Western wind, to hear the aphonous whisperings of the flowers, to be fancifully cognisant of "the music of the spheres"; better this with only a garret for your environment, than to be a wealthy Peter Bell in a palace, or a lord of many acres who sees nothing beyond its intrinsic value in a Turner, and finds Shelley poor stuff and Tennyson only a rhymster. ❋ Various (N/A)