 twixt south and southwest side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute : He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an...  The poetical works of Samuel Butler - Seite xlviivon Samuel Butler - 1866Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Butler - 1861 - 394 Seiten
...Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire) which sided with the parliament, cosnH'd run in debt by disputation. And pay with ratiocination:...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 350 Seiten
...difputation, 'And pay with ratiocination i All this by fyllogifm, true In mood and figure, he would do. s« For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope 5 "And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words ready... | |
 | Alexander Gerard - 1780 - 310 Seiten
...A calf an alderman, a goofe a juftice, And rooks committee-men and truftees, ire. Cant. i. ver. 6$. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope, ire. Ver. 81. trc. In mathematics he was greater, ire. ver. 119. — 188, for holding broth, a dagger... | |
 | Jean Claude - 1788 - 564 Seiten
...art, into rhyme ? like him who believe, there is, I know not faid, What, of irregularity in grief; For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope j And when he happen'd to break off, I' th' middle of his fpeech, or cough, He 'ad hard words ready... | |
 | 1789 - 428 Seiten
...do not queftion but you are as great an orator as Sir Hudibras, of whom the poet'fweetly rings, *' He could not ope *' His mouth, but out there flew a trope." If you will fend us down the, half dozen well turned periods that produced fuch difmal effects in your... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 382 Seiten
...flatt'ry opes, And the puff'd orator burfts out in tropes. An imitation of Butler, Hudibras, i. 1. 81. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Ver. 211. "The pleafing pain:" as in the cafe of a certain vulgar diforder, which a Scotch peer is... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 722 Seiten
...mini! AI Part 1 A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, 75 And rooks Committee.men and Trustees. IleM run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination:...by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. 8a For rbetorie, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 Seiten
...question but you are as great an orator as sir 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... | |
 | 1804 - 764 Seiten
...characters reminded us forcibly of Hudibras, who, we arc told, was fo poetically metaphorical, that he .. " could not ope " His mouth, but out there flew a trope." The ailing was in every rcfpeft good. Mrs. Jordan and the junior Bannifter difplayed their fuperior... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 Seiten
...buzzard is no fowl. And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, 75 Arid roobi Committee-men and Trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation,...by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. 8° ForRnETOHie, he cou'd not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : And when lir- happun'd to... | |
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