 | Samuel Butler - 1773 - 404 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 338 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Gerard - 1780 - 310 pages
...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 - 1788 - 564 pages
...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
...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 fpecch or cough, H' had hard words ready to... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm 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 fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words ready... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 pages
...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 - 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; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pages
...pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm, 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 fpeech or cough, H' had hard words ready to... | |
| |
For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happened to break off I... 
