 | English poets - 1790
...difputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifin, true In mood and figure, he would do.. So For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out...when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his fpecch or cough, H' had hard words ready to fhew why, . 85 And tell what rules he did it by; Elfe when... | |
 | 1795
...difputation, Aad pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm true, In mood and figure he would do. ' For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out...of his fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to (hew why, And tell what rules he did it by ; ' Elfe when with grcatcft art he fpolce. You'd think he... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 348 páginas
...flatt'ry opes, And the puff'd orator burfts out in tropes. An imitation of Butler, Hudibras, i. 1. 81. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Ver. 211. "The pleafing pain:" as in the cafe of a certain vulgar diforder, which a Scotch peer is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800
...difput.it inn, And pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm, true In mood and figure, he would do. for rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out...there flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break off 1' th' middle of his fpeech or cough, H' had hard words ready to (hew why, And tell what rules be did... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1801
...difputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by fyllogifm, true 80 In mood and figure, he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope: And when he happened to break off I' th' middle of his fpeech, or cough, 85 H' had hard words ready to mew why,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802
...question but you are as great an orator as sir Hudibras, of whom the poet sweetly sings, " — — He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." If you will send us down the half dozen well-turned periods that produced such dismal effects in your... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1803
...pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm true. In mood and figure he would do. So For rhetorie, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope:...of his fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to fliew why, 85 And tell what rules he did it by ; Elfe when with greateft art he fpoke, You'd think... | |
 | 1804
...characters reminded us forcibly of Hudibras, who, we arc told, was fo poetically metaphorical, that he .. " could not ope " His mouth, but out there flew a trope." The ailing was in every rcfpeft good. Mrs. Jordan and the junior Bannifter difplayed their fuperior... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 384 páginas
...ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. 8° ForRnETOHie, he cou'd not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : And when lir- happun'd to break otf I' th' middle oi Ins speech, orcungh, H' had hard words ready lo shew why,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806
...Almighty. WARBURTOM. VER. 205. Bentley his mouth, &c.~\ An imitation of Butler, Iludibras, i. I. 81. " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." "WA But Welfted moft the Poet's healing balm Strives to extract from his foft, giving palm ; Unlucky... | |
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For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H... 
