...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...

...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 F the middle of his speech, or cough, He had hard words, ready to show why, And...

...it out, And therefore bore it not about ; Unless on Holy days, or so, As men their best apparel do. For Rhetoric he could not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope : And when he happened to break off I' the middle his speech, or cough, H' had hard words, ready to show why, And...

...habitat — ie, the minds of all the others with whom one would communicate or be communicated with. He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. — Samuel Butler A tropism is the involuntary response of an organism, or of any of its parts, to...

...folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk. For Dame Religion, as for punk; 2 (V, iii) King Richard II 86 A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege. speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by; 3 For all...

...pulpit, Drum Ecclesiastick, / Was beat with fist, instead of a stick" (1.9-12). As for Sir Hudibras, "He could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a Trope" (1.81-82). After the strife of the Interregnum—and during the continued civic and religious turbulence...

...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; And 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...

...of rhetoric (as well as many other things, I might add). In it he ridicules rhetoricians as follows: 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'had hard words ready to show why,...

...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,...