 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,...  The Works of the English Poets: Butler - Page 8by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Walter Sneyd - 1829 - 200 pages
...applied to him — • " He was in logic a great critic ; Profoundly skilled in analytic. * * * » * For Rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. tóo ^•*.-j « ^ ***** In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brake, or Erra Pater * • * * *... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 pages
...disputation, And pay with 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 : 62. Here again is an alteration without any amendment , for the following lines, And truly, so he... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood, George Barrell Emerson - 1830 - 424 pages
...comrnittee-men and trustees, 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,...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, And... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1828 - 828 pages
...mood and figure he would do. 'For rhetoric, lie could not ope His mouth, but out there Hew Tl tropes And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech or cough, H' had h.ird words, ready to show whj And tell whut rules he did it by: Else when... | |
 | Silas Pinckney Holbrook - 1830 - 324 pages
...of the plain swearing that a sailor practices, for he was rwt so picturesque or figurative, that ' He could not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope," yet, when Captain Bacon's lips parted, you seldom failed to hear ad — a, for curses fell from them... | |
 | Silas Pinckney Holbrook - 1830 - 396 pages
...of the plain swearing that a sailor practices, for he was not so picturesque or figurative, that ' He could not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope,' . yet, when Captain Bacon's lips parted, you seldom failed to hear ad — n, for curses fell from them... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...and trustees. 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,...His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he hajipen'd to break oflT Г th' middle of his speech or cough, H" had hard words, ready to show why,... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 pages
...FORUM;— A FARCE, AM never PERFORMED AT COVENT GARDEN OR HR1RV UNT. WITH UNBOl'NDID APPLAUSE. " And as for rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." — Uuiibrat. " Then he would talk— ye gods, how he would talk !"— Alexander the Great. INTRODUCTION.... | |
 | Progress - 1832 - 86 pages
...south-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. His Eloquence. For rhetoric he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. His Style. But, when he pleas'd to shew't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich; " upon his proper... | |
 | 1833 - 448 pages
...six times repeated, his lips, his eyes, and his nose, spoke, looked, and burned wit — pure wit I " He could not ope his mouth, but out there flew a trope. " The very sound of his voice was in itself a waggery; the twinkle of his eye might have toppled a... | |
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