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Definition of Rhymists
1. rhymist [n] - See also: rhymist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhymists
Literary usage of Rhymists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy (1866)
"This last title, at least, is often given to a Minstrel by our most ancient
English rhymists. See in this work, ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"Spenser is the most harmonious of our stanza-writers, as Dryden is the most
sounding and varied of our rhymists. — HAZLITT, WILLIAM, 1818, Lectures on the ..."
3. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy (1839)
"This last title, at least, is often given to a Minstrel by our most ancient
English rhymists. See iu this work vol. i, p. 72, &c. vol. iii. book i. no. ..."
4. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy, Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1876)
"... harper : (See below, notes H, I.) This last title, at least, is often given
to a minstrel by our most ancient English rhymists. ..."
5. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs by Thomas Percy (1844)
"[See below, notes H, I.] This last title, at least, is often given to a Minstrel
by our most ancient English rhymists. See in this work Vol. ip 52, &c. ..."
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