...rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flow a trope: And when he happen'd to break off In th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by; Klse when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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 show why, And...

...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...

...folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk. For Dame Religion, as for punk; 2 (V, iii) King Richard II 86 A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege. show why, And tell what rules he did it by; 3 For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name...

...pulpit, Drum Ecclesiastick, / Was beat with fist, instead of a stick" (1.9-12). As for Sir Hudibras, "He could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a Trope" (1.81-82). After the strife of the Interregnum—and during the continued civic and religious turbulence...

...disputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. 80 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 show why, And tell what rules he did...

...of rhetoric (as well as many other things, I might add). In it he ridicules rhetoricians as follows: 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 show why,...