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Familiar Quotations

Rhymes

I make a rhyme every time.–Anonymous

No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver, or purple.–Anonymous

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.–John Milton

Prayer and practice is good rhyme.–Scottish Proverb

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, gear on up, it's bobsled time!–Cool Runnings

I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.–Edward VIII

Rhymes – "Poetry"

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.–Anonymous

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.–Aristotle

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.–Matthew Arnold

My poetry is like a stove in the summer or a fan in the winter. It runs against the popular tastes and has no practical use.–Matsuo Basho

• Preface v
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Rhymes 1
• Rhymes – "Poetry" 1
• Rhymes – "Song" 2
• Use in Literature 3
• Rhymes 3
• Rhymes – "Bad" 14
• Rhymes – "Childish" 15
• Rhymes – "Double" 15
• Rhymes – "English" 16
• Rhymes – "Father" 16
• Rhymes – "Forms" 17
• Rhymes – "Finding" 18
• Rhymes – "Great" 18
• Rhymes – "Hand" 19
• Rhymes – "Kindly" 20
• Rhymes – "Language" 20
• Rhymes – "Line" 21
• Rhymes – "Little" 22
• Rhymes – "Love" 23
• Rhymes – "Man" 24
• Rhymes – "Metre" 24
• Rhymes – "Music" 25
• Rhymes – "Nothing" 26
• Rhymes – "Numbers" 26
• Rhymes – "Old" 27
• Rhymes – "Poet" 28
• Rhymes – "Poetry" 29
• Rhymes – "Prose" 31
• Rhymes – "Reason" 31
• Rhymes – "Sense" 32
• Rhymes – "Showing" 33
• Rhymes – "Sings" 33
• Rhymes – "Song" 34
• Rhymes – "Songs" 35
• Rhymes – "Sound" 35
• Rhymes – "Stories" 36
• Rhymes – "Things" 36
• Rhymes – "Think" 37
• Rhymes – "Times" 38
• Rhymes – "Wrote" 39
• Rhymes – "Year" 40
• Nonfiction Usage 41
• Lyrical Usage 41
• Script Usage 41
• Spoken Usage 42
• Journalism Usage 42
• Bibliographic Usage 44
• Encyclopedic Usage 196
• Lexicographic Usage 208
• Index 246