 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
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 Seiten
...prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, Ф / rhetorie, he could not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope: And when he happen'd to break off... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 408 Seiten
...Almighty. Pf Ver. 205. Bentley his mouth jfc.] An imitation of Butler, Hudibras, Part i. Canto iv 81. " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." Wakefield. Ver. 207. Welsted] Leonard Welsted, author of The Triumvirate, or a Letter in verse from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 Seiten
...Almighty. Pf Ver. 205. Eentley his mouth fyc.] An imitation of Butler, Hudibras, Part i. Canto iv 81. " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." Wakefield. Ver. 207. Welsted] Leonard Welsted, author of The Triumvirate, or a Letter in verse from... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 412 Seiten
...Almighty. Pf Ver. 205. Bentley his mouth fyc.] An imitation of Butler, Hudibras, Part i. Canto iv 81. " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." Wakefield. Ver. 207. Welsted] Leonard Welsted, author of The Triumvirate, or a Letter in verse from... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...And rooks eommittee-men and truste«*. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratioeination : ign seeure, and, in my ehoiee, To reign is worth ambition thoug rhetorie, he eould not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope: And when he happen'd to break off... | |
 | Guards - 1827 - 308 Seiten
...He'd 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 debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination; And this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth,... | |
 | Timothy Flint - 1828 - 828 Seiten
...prove a bu/zanl is DO fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justici, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in...would do. 'For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, birt out there flew Ik trope; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech or cough,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1829 - 346 Seiten
...And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, 75 And rooks clommittee-men ana trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay...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 : 62. Here again is an alteration... | |
 | Walter Sneyd - 1829 - 200 Seiten
...applied to him — . " He was in logic a great critic ; Profoundly skilled in analytic. » * • * * For Rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. ***** In Mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brake, or Erra Pater « • » * * Beside, he was a... | |
 | Silas Pinckney Holbrook - 1830 - 396 Seiten
...of the plain swearing that a sailor practices, for he was not so picturesque or figurative, that ' He could not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope,' . yet, when Captain Bacon's lips parted, you seldom failed to hear ad — n, for curses fell from them... | |
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