"Riming" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... discovered large countries, and wild people strange and savage, affirming that the American, the Perusine, and the very Canniball do sing and also say their highest and holiest matters in certain riming versicles." In the same way Aristotle, discoursing of the origin of poetry, says (Poet. c. iv.), [Greek: egennesan ten poiesin ek ton autoschediasmaton] M. de la Villemarque in Brittany, M. Pitre in Italy, ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various |
