 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 332 pages
...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 happen'd to break off I' th.' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, os And tell what rules... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pages
...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 off5 I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, s A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,] A doggrel Alexandrine... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 338 pages
...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 happen'd to break off 1' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...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 happen'd to break oft 1' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...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 happen 'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H" had hard words ready to show why,... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - 1843 - 344 pages
...fell to the ground fainting. CHAPTER XI. ('"•rent Ctn anf little Ktool. " For Rhetoric, he could not ope .His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happened to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to shew why, And... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...ratiocination : All this by syllogism true, hi mood and 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 I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...ratiocination : All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. For rhetoric, he could ]' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' liad hard words, ready to show why, And tell what rules he... | |
 | American literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...fourth page, would be read twice or thrioe 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... | |
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He'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 not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech,... 
