 H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.  Hudibras, a Poem - Seite 2von Samuel Butler - 1819Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 Seiten
...he happen'd to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough, He had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, Yon'd think he talked like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleos'd to show't, mb0r9 aflect : It was a partyH'olour'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages ; Twas English cut on (¡reek... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...happen'd to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words, ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by: Else, when with greatest art he spoke, Yon'd think he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 Seiten
...happen'd to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough, II' had hard words, ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by : Else, when with greatest art he spoke, YouM think he talk',! like other folk; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name bin... | |
 | Samuel Stehman Haldeman - 1851 - 110 Seiten
...Pope's Homer's Iliad, iv. 485. H' had hard words r&dy to show wh^ And t6ll what rules he did it b^; . For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. NOTES. English poetry is written and read appreciatingly without a knowledge of the Latin feet, with... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1851 - 910 Seiten
...CHARACTER AS A STUDENT. 611 and informs it. True eloquence was never yet the handiwork of man, — " For all a rhetorician's rules, Teach nothing but to name his tools." So of intellectual power, it is no mere device of human invention. Books are, indeed, useful in their... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1852 - 364 Seiten
...he happen'd to break off 1' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else when with...rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But when he pleased to show 't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect, Which... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 Seiten
...And tell what rules he did it by ; 821 Else when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he tnlk'd like other folk; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleased to show't, his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich ; A Babylonish dialect,... | |
 | 1853 - 404 Seiten
...happened to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough II' had hard words, ready to .show why, And tell what rules he did it by : Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You 'd think he talked like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1854 - 292 Seiten
...he happen'd to break off F th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by ; Else, when with...Teach nothing but to name his tools. 90 But, when he pleased to show't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect, Which learned... | |
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