...This tendency within rhetoric is well satirized in Samuel Butler's portrayal of the dry rhetorician : He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a Trope: And when he happened to break off In the middle of his speech, or cough, He had hard words ready, to shew why,...

...symbol of eccentricity. The couplet beneath enviously mocks Burke's great gifts of figurative language: For Rhetoric he could not ope His Mouth but out there flew a Trope. Sayers may have captured the first good caricature likeness but Burke had been strikingly portrayed,...

...Poetry? What is Wordsworth's theory on the subject? Apply these theories to the following passages: (1) For Rhetoric - he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. And when he happened to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough, He had hard words ready to show why, And...

...Resources: The Arts of Persuasion Nos mimerus sumus et fruges consumere nati. — Horace, Epistles For rhetoric he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope . . . For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. — Samuel Butler The Montgomery...

...southern countries. Here we find the gestural counterpart to the courtier who is too exuberant in speech ('For rhetoric, he could not ope / His mouth but out there flew a trope').21 Dance experts of the period do not, of course, censure the verbal infelicities of their...

...skilled in analytic, He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side . . . For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly. Samuel Butler, Iludibras (1663),...

...disputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by syllogism, 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 happened to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words, ready to shew why,...