单词 | in rhyme |
释义 | > as lemmasin (also †on) rhyme P1. in (also †on) rhyme: in verse, esp. rhyming verse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [adverb] > in rhyme in (also on) rhymea1300 α. β. 1603 P. Holland tr. Homer in tr. Plutarch Morals 1262 He sung withall the praise in rhyme of many a valiant knight.1652 R. Brome Damoiselle iv. i We will off in Rhime. There is no doubt, If Wat be not i'th Compter, he is out.1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 3 But those that write in Rhime, still make The one Verse, for the others sake.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 16 Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.1706 A. Bedford Temple Musick vii. 125 That the Hebrew Psalms were Originally written in Rhyme; but..the Words have been so transposed, that the Rhymes are generally lost.1756 J. Warton Ess. on Pope Ded. p. v That the Epistles of Boileau in Rhyme, are no more poetical, than the Characters of Bruyere in Prose.1816 J. Mitford in T. Gray Poet. Wks. I. p. clii The difficulty of composing in rhyme in French plays, is a great cause of the pleasure which we receive in the composition.1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xx Whether in rhyme or blank-verse.1885 T. Watts in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 257/2 We listen to the poet—we allow him to address us in rhythm or in rhyme.1905 Q. Rev. July 8 To speak Miltonically, the Muse utters the oracle, and her ‘prophet’ renders it in rhyme.1991 Atlantic Feb. 22/3 What interests us here is the magical power of the imprecation delivered in rhyme—or, to be more precise, the enviable ability to curse in verse.a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) l. 513 In boke is ðe turtres lif writen o rime. c1400 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 466 (MED) Nouþer God ne alle his seintus willen heren men for no rabul of wordis ne curiouse florischynge in ryme. c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 3261 I ffynde In prose and ryme, Was non so strong In that tyme. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry 3 Thanne y made this boke, But y wolde not sette it in ryme. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 223/1 A foolish raylyng boke against the clergy, and much part made in ryme. 1716 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 189 Written in rime in the Country Dialect. 1802 J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës I. p. xviii There is, even, a Latin song in rime extant in print, which was made upon a great victory obtain'd by king Clothair the second. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxv. 589 Before the end of the twelfth century England had seen an English sermon in regular rime. 1964 G. Barker True Confession ii. iv. 58 I'm At heart one of those moral freaks Not satisfied that they exist Until they make a noise in rime. 1973 College Eng. 34 1062/2 ‘My Last Duchess’, where even the fact that the poem is in rime is almost unrecognizable. < as lemmas |
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