 | William Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1880 - 362 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 happened to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, . H' had hard words ready to show why,... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...rye." " Natu-r#/-ly" and " dif-Jissel " will bring two odd lines into metre : 1. 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... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true 45 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 I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, 5o H' had hard words ready to show why,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 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 bappen'd to break off I' the middle of his speech or cough, He had hard words ready to show why, And... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 270 pages
...ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true So 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 brake off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, B 2 4 HUDIBRAS. [PART i. s5 H' had hard... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ; . . . For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happened to break off In th' middle of his speech, or cough, He'd hard words ready to show why, And... | |
 | Francis Thayer Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 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, And tell what rules he... | |
 | Elocution - 1882 - 330 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... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - Quotations - 1882 - 200 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 shew why, And tell what rules he... | |
 | Elocution - 1882 - 328 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... | |
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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,... 
