 | Clifton College (Bristol, England) - 1867 - 438 pages
...dark to thy soul, Think on the morrow a glorious sun Bright through the skies will roll. 138 A MEDLEY. For all a rhetorician's rules, Teach nothing, but to name his tools. Sutler's Hudibrai. IT waa a bright Saturday afternoon in summer term. From the Close I heard the thud,... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 544 pages
...imprison whom they pleased. 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 show "t, his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich ; / A Babylonish dialect,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...67. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part i. Canto i. Line 81. For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. Part i. Canto L Lint 89. For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. Part i. Canto... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 pages
...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 shew't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect, Which... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talked like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. 1 Members of the committees for conducting the sequestrations or receiving the compositions of the... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 pages
...rules he did it by ; 3. 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 pleased to show 't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect, Which... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...rules he did it by ; Else when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talked like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleased to show't, his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich ; A Babylonish dialect,... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think ho talked like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleased to show't, his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich ; A Babylonish dialect,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...67. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part i. Canto i. Line 81. For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. Part i. Canto i. Line 89. For he, by geometric scale, . Could take the si2e of pots of ale. Part 1.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...67. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part i. Canto L Line Si. For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. Part i. Canto i. Line 89. For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale. Part i. Canto... | |
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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. 
