“So I told them in rhyme,
For of rhymes I had store.”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
St. 1. <br class="br"> The Cataract of Lodore http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/652.html (1820)
“Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme, and do not merely rhyme…”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, book The Antichrist
Nihilist und Christ: das reimt sich, das reimt sich nicht bloss.
Sec. 58, as translated by R. J. Hollingdale. In German these words do rhyme; variant translation: Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme, and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.
The Antichrist (1888)
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