 | Samuel Burdy - 1817 - 596 str.
...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 str.
...a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman,fa goose a justice, And rooks committee-men* and trustees, He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination...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, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 str.
...of Hudibras to his Lady - 366 The Lady's Answer to the Knight - - - - 378 I C'anto 1. HTDiBRAe. 17 For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out...there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off F th' middle of his speech, or cough, He' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 560 str.
....ratiocination : uiiilT .All this by Byllogisrn, true , In mood and figure he would do. • ,-iJBC 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 shew why, 8.5 And tell what rules... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 str.
...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 str.
...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,... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 str.
...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:...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 str.
...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 str.
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 str.
...a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. m rhetorie, he could not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope: And when he happen'd to break off... | |
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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. 
