 | 1855 - 528 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1855 - 398 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...but seldom upon any other oocasloil. All t'.iis by syllogism true, In mood :md 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 In til' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side. Part i. Canto i. Line 81. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part i. Canto i. Line 131. Whatever sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. Part... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 Seiten
...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 F the middle of his speech, or cough, He had hard words, ready to show why, And tell what rules he... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1857 - 414 Seiten
...the rhetoricians, and the ridicule will apply with equal justice to the scholastic logicians : — " For rhetoric, he could not ope' His mouth but out there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough, He 'd hard words ready to show why, And... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1857 - 416 Seiten
...the rhetoricians, and the ridicule will apply with equal justice to the scholastic logicians : — " For rhetoric, he could not ope' His mouth but out there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I' the middle of his speech, or cough, He 'd hard words ready to show why, And... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 Seiten
...disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. so 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, IF had hard words ready to show why, 35... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there hVw a trope : And when he happen'd to break otf In tli' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And toll what rules he did it by ; Else when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - 1858 - 422 Seiten
...disputation, And pay with ratiocination ; All this by syllogism, true Iq mood and figure, he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out...middle of his speech, or cough H' had hard words, read}7 to show why, And tell what rules he did it by : Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You 'd... | |
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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, H... 
