1675, Edward Phillips and Egerton Brydges, Theatrum poetarum anglicanorum: containing brief characters of the English poets, down to the year 1675. From the Press of Bonnant. p. xxv:Writers of spritely songs, and rhymesters of pretty fancies, are wanting in all the primary constituents. They may give a sort of feeble emotion of pleasure; but they stir no great faculty.
1846, George Hooker Colton, and James Davenport Whelpley, The American review, Volume 4. Wiley and Putnam. p. 50:There must be many mere rhymesters; but making even this allowance, a respectable number of poets will be left.
