 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
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1855 - 398 Seiten
...but his mind was teeming with spontaneous imagery, allusion, metaphor. One might almost say of him, " He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ! " These images and allusions had a freshness, an originality, and sometimes an oddity that was quite... | |
 | 1855 - 528 Seiten
...matters. We do not question but you, are as great an orator as 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1856 - 522 Seiten
...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...to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, by Mr. Bailer. And, indeed, as Mr. Cowley observes, in his Ode on Wit, 'tis jast The author blush,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...upon any other oocasloil. All t'.iis by syllogism true, In mood :md 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 In til' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1856 - 602 Seiten
...third or fourth page, would be read twice or thrice on the spot, before going farther : " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope ; And when he happened to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And... | |
 | 1867 - 420 Seiten
...therefore bore it not about ; Unless on Holy days, or so, As men their best apparel do. For Rhetoric he could not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope : And when he happened to break off I' the middle his speech, or cough, H' had hard words, ready to show why, And... | |
 | Brent David Ruben, Leah A. Lievrouw - 486 Seiten
...habitat — ie, the minds of all the others with whom one would communicate or be communicated with. He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. — Samuel Butler A tropism is the involuntary response of an organism, or of any of its parts, to... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk. For Dame Religion, as for punk; 2 For rhetoric, Richard II 86 A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege. And tell what rules he did it by; 3 For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 1994 - 276 Seiten
...pulpit, Drum Ecclesiastick, / Was beat with fist, instead of a stick" (1.9-12). As for Sir Hudibras, "He could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a Trope" (1.81-82). After the strife of the Interregnum—and during the continued civic and religious turbulence... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 Seiten
...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 off I'th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did... | |
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