 | Walter Sneyd - 1829 - 200 Seiten
...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. ***** In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brake, or Erra Pater « • » * * Beside, he was a... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Silas Pinckney Holbrook - 1830 - 396 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Silas Pinckney Holbrook - 1830 - 324 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1831 - 426 Seiten
...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...when he happen'd to break off I* th* middle of his speech or cough, W had hard words, ready to show whv. And tell what rules he did it by: Else when with... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | 1833 - 448 Seiten
...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 - 340 Seiten
...two pedlers." He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. so For rhetoric,...when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, as And tell what rules he did it by ; Else,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 332 Seiten
...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...when he happen'd to break off I' th.' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, os And tell what rules he did it by ; Else,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 Seiten
...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 : And when he happen'd to break off5 I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, s A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,] A doggrel Alexandrine... | |
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