 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Spectator The - 1823 - 352 sivua
...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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 252 sivua
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 408 sivua
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 sivua
...pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do. For rhetorie, And when he happen'd to break off l' th' middle of his speech, or cough, ! I ' had hard words ready... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 412 sivua
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 406 sivua
...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... | |
 | Guards - 1827 - 308 sivua
...pay with ratiocination; And 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 happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, H' had hard words ready... | |
 | Walter Sneyd - 1829 - 200 sivua
...— . " 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 - 324 sivua
...oaths were of the plain swearing that a sailor practices, for he was rwt 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 — a, for curses fell from them... | |
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