 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 lapas
...disputation, And 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 lapas
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1855 - 398 lapas
...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 lapas
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 lapas
...but seldom 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 - 1856 - 602 lapas
...occurring in the 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 lapas
...He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side. Part i. Canto i. Line 81. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part i. Canto i. Line 131. Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. Part... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1857 - 414 lapas
...the 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... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1857 - 416 lapas
...the 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 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...flew a trope ; » And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, IF had hard words ready to show why, 35 And tell what rules... | |
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For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happened to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H... 
