 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,...  Bell's Edition - Seite 16von John Bell - 1797Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. For rhetoric, @ 9 happcn'd to break ofi' I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words, ready to show why,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His month, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words, ready to show why, And tell what rules he did... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 Seiten
...And pay with ratiocination : AH 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 Seiten
...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 oft' I' th' middle of his speech or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...well been taught her dazzling fence, Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced. Milton. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Butler. RHYME. 547 EHYME. NOT marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful... | |
 | Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 Seiten
...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...speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why. And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1854 - 428 Seiten
...rhetoricians, and the ridicule will apply with equal justice to the scholastic logicians : — " For rhetoric, he could not ope' His mouth but out there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough, He 'd hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 Seiten
...rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flow a trope: And when he happen'd to break off In th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by; Klse when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 Seiten
...pay with ratiocination ; All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure,t he would do, For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : t And when he happen'd to break off I'the middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words, ready... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 292 Seiten
...bound up again in the oddest possible style, and with all its pages awry. Butler says of his hero — " He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." It is a faithful description of the mock epic, as well as of its mock hero. But the tropes, too, are... | |
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