 | Spectator The - 1823
...We do not 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 822 páginas
...pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do. For rhetorie, l' th' middle of his speech, or cough, ! I ' had hard words ready to shew why, And tell what rules... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
...Almighty. Pf Ver. 205. Bentley his mouth fyc.] An imitation of Butler, Hudibras, Part i. Canto iv 81. " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." Wakefield. Ver. 207. Welsted] Leonard Welsted, author of The Triumvirate, or a Letter in verse from... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824
...Almighty. Pf Ver. 205. Bentley his mouth jfc.] An imitation of Butler, Hudibras, Part i. Canto iv 81. " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." Wakefield. Ver. 207. Welsted] Leonard Welsted, author of The Triumvirate, or a Letter in verse from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...Almighty. Pf Ver. 205. Eentley his mouth fyc.] An imitation of Butler, Hudibras, Part i. Canto iv 81. " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." Wakefield. Ver. 207. Welsted] Leonard Welsted, author of The Triumvirate, or a Letter in verse from... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 562 páginas
...ratioeination : All this by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do. For rhetorie, he eould o reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th' assoeiates speeeh, or eough, II' had hard words ready to shew why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else when... | |
 | Guards - 1827
...disputation, And pay with ratiocination; And this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out...when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else when... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1828
...true In mood and figure he would do. 'For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, birt out there flew Ik trope; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech or cough, H' had hard words, ready to show whj And tell whut rules he did it by: Else when with... | |
 | Walter Sneyd - 1829
...applied to him — . " He was in logic a great critic ; Profoundly skilled in analytic. » * • * * For Rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ***** In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brake, or Erra Pater « • » * * Beside, he was a... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1829 - 312 páginas
...disputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. 80 For Rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : 62. Here again is an alteration without any amendment , for the following lines, And truly, so he... | |
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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... 
