 twixt south and south-west 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 alderman,...  Wit and Humor - Seite 178von Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 261 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Burdy - 1817 - 596 Seiten
...tropes, and figures, however absurd and inconsistent, they are the more applauded by their audience— " For rhetoric he could not ope " His mouth, but out there flew a trope." Plain argument, and the simple language of nature, is considered as a common attainment, and disregarded... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 Seiten
...prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman,-)' a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men^ and trustees, He'd run in...by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. • Thin changed in the editions of 1674, 1684, 1689, 1694, 1700, And truly so perhaps he was, 'Tis... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 Seiten
...He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman,fa goose a justice, And rooks committee-men* and trustees, He'd run in...by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. * Thus dunged in the editions of 1674, 1684, 1689, 1694, 1700, And truly so perhaps he was, 'Tis many... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 390 Seiten
...historical account of these Committees, in Dr. Walker's Sufferings o/ ilm Episcopal Clergy, part 1 . He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination....All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he wou'd do. so For rhetoric, he cou'd not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope :" And when he happen'd... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 Seiten
...And rooks eommittee-ment and trustees, He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratioeination: All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. * Thus ehanged tn the editions of I674,I684,I689,IS94,J700, And truly so perhaps he was, 'Tts many... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 Seiten
...which quite outdistances the usual range of sophomoric effort in that direction. Like Sir Hudibras, " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." He is a standing example of the evil of possessing too much fancy, too much sublimity, too much excitability,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 314 Seiten
...fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman9, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men10 and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : AH this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. 8 Thus changed iu the editions of 1674,... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 Seiten
...He'U prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees : He'd run in...by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do." Though it is thus admitted, that little advantage is to be derived from syllogism, let it not be imagined,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 252 Seiten
...We do not 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1823 - 352 Seiten
...We do not 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... | |
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