 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 394 pages
...parliament, cosnH'd run in debt by disputation. And pay with ratiocination: All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. For rhetoric, he could...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1753 - 462 pages
...and Truflecs. He'd run in debt by difputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllcgifm, true 80 In mood and figure he would do. For Rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out their flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his fpeech, or cough, 85 H'... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1773 - 404 pages
...difputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm, true In mood and figure, he would do. 89 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 fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words, ready to fhew why,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 340 pages
...difputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifin, true In mood and figure, he would do. So 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 fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to fhew why, .85... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 732 pages
...with ratiocination i All this by fyllogifin, true In mood and figure, he would do. 80 For rhetorie, 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 fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to mew why,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 348 pages
...difputation, 'And pay with ratiocination i All this by fyllogifm, true In mood and figure, he would do. sŤ For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope 5 "And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words ready... | |
 | Alexander Gerard - Aesthetics - 1780 - 312 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... | |
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