 I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk: For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.  Hudibras: A Poem - Page 5by Samuel Butler - 1822 - 494 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1803 - 522 pages
...pay with ratiocination : All this by fyllogifm true. In mood and figure he would do. So For rhetorie, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope:...when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his fpeech, or cough, H' had hard words ready to fliew why, 85 And tell what rules he did it by ; Elfe... | |
 | 1804 - 764 pages
...characters reminded us forcibly of Hudibras, who, we arc told, was fo poetically metaphorical, that he .. " could not ope " His mouth, but out there flew a trope." The ailing was in every rcfpeft good. Mrs. Jordan and the junior Bannifter difplayed their fuperior... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 pages
...ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. 8° ForRnETOHie, he cou'd not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : And when lir- happun'd to break otf I' th' middle oi Ins speech, orcungh, H' had hard words ready lo shew why,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 442 pages
...Almighty. WARBURTOM. VER. 205. Bentley his mouth, &c.~\ An imitation of Butler, Iludibras, i. I. 81. " For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope." "WA But Welfted moft the Poet's healing balm Strives to extract from his foft, giving palm ; Unlucky... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...Westminster, to fine and imprison whom they pleased. For rhetoric, he conld not ope His month, bnt ont there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I' tli' middle of his speech, or congh, fT had hard words ready te show why, And tell what rnles he did... | |
 | Samuel Burdy - Ireland - 1817 - 596 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...authorny, horn the members of the two Houses at Westminster, to fine ana imprison whom they pleased. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out...to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, He' had hard words ready to show why, And tell what rules he did it by; Else when with greatest art... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 456 pages
...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... | |
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