 | Guards - 1827 - 308 pages
...pay with ratiocination; And 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... | |
 | Walter Sneyd - 1829 - 200 pages
...— . " 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. ***** In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brake, or Erra Pater « • » * * Beside, he was a... | |
 | Silas Pinckney Holbrook - 1830 - 396 pages
...distance between them. His oaths were of the plain swearing that a sailor practices, for he was not so picturesque or figurative, that ' He could not...Bacon's lips parted, you seldom failed to hear ad — n, for curses fell from them as the pearls and rubies dropped from those of the good child in the... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...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 or cough, W had hard words, ready to... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 pages
...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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 pages
...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 : And when he happen'd to break off5 I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, s A calf an Alderman, a... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 pages
...pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism, 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 speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...We do not question but you arc as great an orator as sir Hudibras, of whom the poet sweetly sings. -He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." If you will send us down the half dozen well-turned periods, that produced such dismal effects in your... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 338 pages
...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 1' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready... | |
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