 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence, Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced. Milton. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Butler. RHYME. 547 EHYME. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 páginas
...disputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by syllogism, 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 speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why. And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1854 - 428 páginas
...the rhetoricians, and the ridicule will apply with equal justice to the scholastic logicians : — " For rhetoric, he could not ope' His mouth but out...flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough, He 'd hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 páginas
...disputation, And pay with ratiocination ; All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure,t he would do, For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : t And when he happen'd to break off I'the middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words, ready... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 292 páginas
...bound up again in the oddest possible style, and with all its pages awry. Butler says of his hero — " He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." It is a faithful description of the mock epic, as well as of its mock hero. But the tropes, too, are... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1855 - 398 páginas
...but his mind was teeming with spontaneous imagery, allusion, metaphor. One might almost say of him, " He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ! " These images and allusions had a freshness, an originality, and sometimes an oddity that was quite... | |
 | 1855 - 528 páginas
...matters. We do not question but you, are as great an orator as 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...but seldom upon any other oocasloil. All t'.iis by syllogism true, In mood :md 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 In til' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1856 - 602 páginas
...occurring in the third or fourth page, would be read twice or thrice on the spot, before going farther : " 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, H' had hard words ready to show why, And... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side. Part i. Canto i. Line 81. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part i. Canto i. Line 131. Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. Part... | |
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