 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pàgines
...He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and southwest side. Part i. Canto i. Line 67. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part i. Canto i. Line 81. Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. Part... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pàgines
...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 happened to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, He had hard words, ready... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1865 - 510 pàgines
...civilisation is unknown. In this respect, what Butler says of Sir Hudibras is of universal application, " For rhetoric he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." Nor would this be less true even if there should be many who, with respect to rhetoric, should find... | |
 | 1865 - 590 pàgines
...change hands, and still confute.' But his power in logic was not equal to his skill in rhetoric. ' For Rhetoric he could not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope.' Fourteen years' silence and meditation have not amended in our author this over-copiousness of rhetoric.... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pàgines
...disputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. 80 re, on every morrow, are we wreathing A flowery band to bind us to t ; And when he happen'd to break off Г th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 pàgines
...disputation, 75 And pay with ratiocination: All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. fall : Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet 80 And when he happened to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1926 - 548 pàgines
...mood and figure, he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there dew a trope; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, He had hard words to show why, And tell what rules he did it by. JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)... | |
 | 1867 - 420 pàgines
...it out, And 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... | |
 | Brent David Ruben, Leah A. Lievrouw - 486 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk. For Dame Religion, as for punk; 2 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... | |
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