1503 SHELLEY: _Peter Bell the Third, Hell,_ St. 6.

=Rhetoric.=

For Rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.

1504 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 8.

Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

1505 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 790.

=Rhine.=

The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine.

1506 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 55.

The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

1507 COLERIDGE: _Cologne._

=Rhyme.=

Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme.

1508 BEN JONSON: _Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme._

He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.

1509 MILTON: _Lycidas,_ Line 10.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

1510 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto i., Line 463.

=Riches.=

Infinite riches in a little room.

1511 MARLOWE: _The Jew of Malta,_ Act i.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

1512 MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk ii., Line 453.

=Ridicule.=

Ridicule is a weak weapon, when levelled at a strong mind; But common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh.

1513 TUPPER: _Proverbial Phil., Of Ridicule._

Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song.

1514 POPE: Satire i., Bk. ii., Line 76.

=Right.=

But 't was a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.

1515 CRABBE: _Tales:_ Tale xv., _The Squire and the Priest._

For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin.

1516 FREDERICK W. FABER: _The Right Must Win._

And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

1517 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 289.

=Rivers.=

By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.

1518 MARLOWE: _The Passionate Shepherd to His Love._

See the rivers, how they run, Changeless to the changeless sea.

1519 CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

The river glideth at his own sweet will.

1520 WORDSWORTH: _Earth has not anything to show more fair._

=Robbery.=

I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen From general excrement: each thing's a thief.

1521 SHAKS.: _Timon of A.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Rock.=

Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock.

1522 BYRON: _Giaour,_ Line 969.

Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee.

1523 TOPLADY: _Salvation through Christ._

Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.

1524 SCOTT: _Lady of the Lake,_ Canto v., St. 10.

=Rod.=

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

1525 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 816.

A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

1526 WORDSWORTH: _Ode to Duty._