 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...long back on it felf recoils. Milt. RHERHETORICIAN. For Rhetorick, he could not ope His Mouth, jtiut out there flew a Trope : And when he happen'd to break off 1'th'Middle of his Speech, or cough, H*ad Words ready to fhew why, And i-fil what Rules he did it by.... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Satire - 1744 - 570 pages
...Ratiocination. All this by Syllogifm, true 80 In Mood and Figure, he wou'd do. For Rbetonck, he cou'd 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, 85 H' had hard Words ready to fhew why, And tell what Rules he... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1761 - 570 pages
...Ratiocination. 2 ^ ' All this by Syllogifm, true 80 In Mood and Figure, he wou'd do. For RHETORICK, he cou'd 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, 85 H' had hard Words ready to mew why, And tell what Rules he... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1774 - 254 pages
...pay with ratiocination : All this by fyilogifm, true In mood and figure, he would do. For rhetorie, 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 he did... | |
 | Alexander Gerard - Aesthetics - 1780 - 310 pages
...A calf an alderman, a goofe a juftice, And rooks committee-men and truftees, ire. Cant. i. ver. 6$. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope, ire. Ver. 81. trc. In mathematics he was greater, ire. ver. 119. — 188, for holding broth, a dagger... | |
 | Jean Claude - Preaching - 1788 - 564 pages
...art, into rhyme ? like him who believe, there is, I know not faid, What, of irregularity in grief; For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope j And when he happen'd to break off, I' th' middle of his fpeech, or cough, He 'ad hard words ready... | |
 | 1789 - 428 pages
...do not queftion but you are as great an orator as Sir Hudibras, of whom the poet'fweetly rings, *' He could not ope *' His mouth, but out there flew a trope." If you will fend us down the, half dozen well turned periods that produced fuch difmal effects in your... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...Chriftian's cafei Reftored in the edition of 1704. B j A calf A calf an alderman, a goofe a juftice, ^-j And rooks Committee-men and Truftees. He'd run in...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... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...pay with ratiocination: All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. 8a For rbetorie, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope;...when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, gg And tell what rules he did it by; v. 7;.]... | |
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