 | Timothy Flint - 1828 - 828 lapas
...true In mood and figure he would do. 'For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, birt out there flew Ik trope; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech or cough, H' had hard words, ready to show whj And tell whut rules he did it by: Else when with greatest ait... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 lapas
...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... | |
 | Walter Sneyd - 1829 - 200 lapas
...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... | |
 | Silas Pinckney Holbrook - 1830 - 324 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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...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 greatest art... | |
 | Egerton Smith - 1831 - 656 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...disputation, And 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...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, when with greatest... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 lapas
...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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