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  • Just after his marriage, when he was fifty-two, he had written in a poem, 'I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,' yet things had changed by the time he reached sixtyeight.

    Yeats's Second Puberty Ellmann, Richard 1985

  • (I have always sympathised with the rhymer's difficulties), it was necessary to put the joke on the other leg.

    The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

  • Whatever the coarse liberties taken with the subject -- of which we are not allowed more than an occasional glimpse -- and despite the fact that the relation was in verse, which ordinarily makes for the indulgence of the rhymer's fancy -- the description appears to be fairly accurate, for it corresponds more or less with the particulars given in Sanuto.

    The Life of Cesare Borgia Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Whatever the coarse liberties taken with the subject -- of which we are not allowed more than an occasional glimpse -- and despite the fact that the relation was in verse, which ordinarily makes for the indulgence of the rhymer's fancy -- the description appears to be fairly accurate, for it corresponds more or less with the particulars given in Sanuto.

    The Life of Cesare Borgia Sabatini, Rafael, 1875-1950 1912

  • But in rhyming ingenuity Browning is inferior to the author of “Hudibras,” in a rhymer's elegant effrontery he is inferior to the author of “Don Juan.”

    Robert Browning Dowden, Edward 1904

  • Still for the rhyme's sake (I have always sympathised with the rhymer's difficulties), it was necessary to put the joke on the other leg.

    The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography John St. Loe Strachey 1893

  • Sandro was, by a nympholepsy, or, as Lorenzo was, by the rhymer's appetite for wherewithal to sonnetteer?

    Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • The rhymer's eyes widened as he drew breath to blow forth the envoi of his ballade.

    If I Were King Justin McCarthy 1871

  • Chestre's version of Launfal from Marie of France, and the same rhymer's romance of "Ly Beaus Disconus," who was Gingelein, a son of

    Playful Poems Henry Morley 1858

  • "Now, that I call mean," said Tunstall, "to take the poor rhymer's money, who has so little left behind."

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

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