 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...what Rules he did it by. Elfewhen with greateft Art he {poke, You'd think he talk'd like other Folk. For all a Rhetorician's Rules, Teach nothing but to name his Tools. Hud. RHYME. Rhyme the Rudder is of Verfes, With which, like Ships, they fteer their Courfes. Hud. Andthofe... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1757 - 400 pages
...Rules he did it by : fife when with greateft Art hefpoke , You 'd think he talk'd like other folk. for all a Rhetorician's Rules Teach nothing but to name his Tools. But, when he pleas' d to shew't , his Speech In loftinejf of Sound was rich ; A Babylonish Dialeft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 738 pages
...the two Houfes at Weftminfter, to fine and imprifon whom they pleafed. HUD IB RAS, PART I. CANTO I. , For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. 90 But, when he pleas'd to fhow 't, his fpeech, In loftinefs of found, was rich 5 • A Babylonifh... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1785 - 504 pages
...hindered from hearing the effft'l of imiikal intervals, becaufc he is ignorant of their ratios; » ' For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.' We cannot agree with the author, when he fays, that harttiony is rather the parent than the offspring... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...what rules he did it by; Elfe when with greateft art he fpoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. 50 Ver. 75.] Such was Alderman Pennington, who fent a perfon to Newgate for tinging (what he called)... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...rules be did it by ; Elfe v. hen with greateft art he fpoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. J» Bnt, when he pleas'd to ihew 't, his fpecch, In loftinefs of found, was rich ; A Babylonim dialeft,... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...appeared, to the author of Hudibras, the utmost pitch that had even to his time been attained : • For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools *. In this, however, the matter hath been exaggerated by the satyrist. Considerable progress had been... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1803 - 522 pages
...what rules he did it by ; Elfe when with greateft art he fpoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. 90 But, when he pleas'd to fltew't, his fpeech, In loftinefs of found, was rich ; A Babylonifli dialeft,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 560 pages
...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. 90 But, when he pleas'd to shew't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...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. But, when he pleas'd to show't, his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich ; A Babylonish dialect,... | |
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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 talked like other folk. 
