rhymester

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Richard, checked by the voice, turned blazing upon him Why, thou school-boy rhymester, that is the only merit thou hast, and that not thine own!

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  1. noun One who composes light verse.
  2. noun A minor or inferior poet.

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  • Shakespeare was thinking of himself, the dramatist-poet, who was indeed a chronicle of the time; but the courtier Lord Polonius would not care a dam for a rhymester's praise or blame. —  The Man Shakespeare
  • Nearly two decades after the death of the rhymester children's author, his name still represents a multimillion-dollar business. —  SacBee -- Latest News
  • You seem to have scorched this rhymester, Vaggia He has frequently told me so, indeed," said Selvaggia It reminds me of Messer San Giovanni Vangelista," Ugolino continued, "who was made to sing rarely by the touching of a hot cinder Selvaggia snatched the scrolls out of her brother's hand. —  Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
  • A poet is always a dead rhymester,--a philosopher, a dead dreamer Let Spencer but die Tush! —  The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills
  • 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 lies embalmed, so to speak, and made immortal in the sea-song The Arethusa was a stumpy little frigate, scanty in crew, light in guns, attached to the fleet of Admiral Keppel, then cruising off Brest. —  Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes
 

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