He'd run in debt by 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 happen'd to break off I' th" middle of his speech,... Hudibras, a Poem - Seite 2von Samuel Butler - 1819Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 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... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 342 Seiten
...difputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifin, true In mood and figure, he would do.. So For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out...when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his fpecch or cough, H' had hard words ready to fhew why, . 85 And tell what rules he did it by; Elfe when... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 Seiten
...difputation, Aad pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm true, In mood and figure he would do. ' For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out...when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to (hew why, And tell what rules he did it by ; ' Elfe when... | |
| 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
...pay with ratiocination: All this 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;...of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, gg And tell what rules he did it by; v. 7;.] Such was Alderman Pennington, who sent a person... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 Seiten
...difput.it inn, And pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm, 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 off 1' th' middle of his fpeech or cough, H' had hard words ready to (hew why, And tell what rules be did... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1801 - 528 Seiten
...difputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by fyllogifm, true 80 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 fpeech, or cough, 85 H' had hard words ready to mew why,... | |
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