The honest enthusiast had no suspicion in his nature: the moment they touched upon his favourite theme, he forgot his misfortunes and imprisonment, and broke forth into Rhapsodies about the divine science.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
They are to be regarded rather as philosophical Rhapsodies than as purely didactic poems, like either the 'Works and Days' of Hesiod or the writings of the Alexandrine School.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The letter was filled with the Rhapsodies which I had before spurned from me with horror.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse