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You have heard the old rhyme: "Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God has made them so: Let bears and lions growl and fight, For 'tis their nature to." "No; I've always thought myself that line was not quite fair to the dogs either, but the verses mean that we mustn't blame animals for doing things that it is their nature to do."
"And I'm sure 'morn' doesn't rhyme with 'dawn." at which Doe went white with pain, and numbered the doctor among the Philistines. "It's a very distinguished attempt to catch the spirit of Horace's fine ode," answered Radley, and Doe turned red again with pleasure, forgiving Radley all the unkindness he had ever perpetrated, and enrolling him among the Elect.
She turned, she was away light of foot, and in a moment through the wind he heard her singing to a tune of her own the child's rhyme: "Fly away, Jack, Fly away, Jill, Come again, Jack, Come again, Jill." Where the lane from Fortis Green crosses the high road there stood an ale-house. On the wettest days, and some others, the place was Harry's resort.
Sheldon's house without rhyme or reason, to take up your quarters in lodgings with Mrs. Sheldon.
Libbie, "the little dark girl," smiled dreamily as Timothy passed her suitcase to Tommy. She and Timothy Derby, ignoring the jeers of their friends, were deep in two white and gold volumes of poetry. Timothy, Libbie had discovered, had a leaning toward the romantic in fiction, though he preferred his served in rhyme. The wicked Tommy had a motive in asking for Libbie's suitcase.
For instance, in "equipt yours," "Scriptures;" "Manchester," "haunches stir;" or "affirm any," "Germany;" where two words rhyme with one word. But there are very few of them that are objectionable on account of this difficulty and necessity of rapid analysis.
She used to say she knew the sound of my hoofs on the road, of a still night, when we were a mile away; and she'd say over a little rhyme she'd got hold of somehow: 'Star, Star, good and bright, I wish you may and I wish you might Bring somebody to me I want to see to-night. "If she said that twice, looking straight down the road, she told us we were sure to come.
Modestly the novelist motioned. "Ten Eyck Jones now! It doesn't rhyme with Victor Hugo or even with Andrew Carnegie, but it has a lilt. It might be worse." "What are you talking about?" Cassy, with increasing discomfort, put in. "There is a little thing that turns men into flint and women into putty. That's what I am talking about. I am talking money." "Thank you.
In a museum of art I was shown several rooms full of daubs, having absolutely nothing to commend them, weird colors being thrown together in the strangest manner, without rhyme or reason, but over which people went mad. The great masters of Europe appeal to me strongly. In America, marine painters attract me the most, for example, Edward Moran, who is a splendid delineator of the sea.
Swinburne is a complete master of the rhythm and rhyme, the time and accent, the pause, the balance, the flow of vowel and clash of consonant, that make the "music" for which verse is popular and prized.
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