From the moral point of view, these pieces may, perhaps, come under Spenser's condemnation of the rhymers who sing of amatory adventures in which love is no sooner asked than it is granted.
Its distinguishing point was its possessing all the opposite qualities to the poetry of the rhymers of what we shall call the Sicilian school.
These rhymers never moved a step beyond the ideas of chivalry; they had no originality; they did not sing of what they felt in their heart; they abhorred the true and the real.
This would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rhymers and play-writers be; and show them what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry, both in divine and human things.
Mediaeval clerks and rhymerstook his light art seriously, and certain of them made manuals of the rules and precepts of love, devised by themselves and others interested in such fancies.
On the one side, the courtly rhymers who versified in the Provencal dialect, bequeathed to Sicily and Tuscany the chivalrous lyric of love, which was destined to take its final and fairest form from Dante and Petrarch.
But in the ordinary style of his versification he seems not to rise much above the prosaic and tedious rhymers of the fifteenth century.
With all her rhymers and all her inspiration, New England gave forth not a single original note.
The Recess, as spent in London, has been drawn by the rhymers in depressing tints.
Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth Than those old nine which rhymers invocate, And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
For every shilling paid to these men, two were to be forfeited to the Queen, whose Commissioners were to have power to fine the rhymers at discretion.
We Rhymers did not humour and cajole; but it was not wholly from demerit, it was in part because of different merit, that he refused our exile.
The Rhymers had begun to break up in tragedy, though we did not know that till the play had finished.
From Alp to AEtna the love-sick rhymers are fain to go and dwell with their heart's adoration "in mezzo al mar.
It has been noticed that the institution of marriage is not regarded in a very favourable light by the majority of folk-poets, but Venetian rhymers as a rule take an encouraging view of it.
Around and below them countless rhymers persist in following the old paths, not knowing that these paths have ceased to lead anywhere, and that the time has come to search for new ones.
Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth Than those old nine which rhymers invocate; And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
Davies seems to have aimed at Shakespeare as well as at insignificantrhymers like the author of 'Zepheria.
It is perhaps unfair to take ourrhymers too seriously.
He is a pleasant rhymer, asrhymers go, and, though we strongly object to his putting the Song of Solomon into bad blank verse, still we are quite ready to admire his translations of the Pervigilium Veneris and of Omar Khayyam.
So modern rhymers strive to blast The poetry of ages past; Which, having wisely overthrown, They from its ruins build their own.
So modern rhymers wisely blast The poetry of ages past; Which, after they have overthrown, They from its ruins build their own.
It is true, that neither before nor after the Conquest was there any lack of rhymers in the vulgar tongue, whether Saxon or Norman, or mixed; and they would be the popular poets, but not exactly the poets in fashion at court.
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