 twixt south and south-west side ; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman,...  Wit and Humor - Strona 178autor: Leigh Hunt - 1846 - Liczba stron: 261Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Adam Potkay - 1994 - Liczba stron: 276
...pulpit, Drum Ecclesiastick, / Was beat with fist, instead of a stick" (1.9-12). As for Sir Hudibras, "He could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a Trope" (1.81-82). After the strife of the Interregnum—and during the continued civic and religious turbulence... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - Liczba stron: 936
...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. He'd run in...by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. 80 For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - 2011 - Liczba stron: 224
...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. The hero of this poem is shown to be a somewhat unworldly pedant, who uses his intellect for various... | |
 | Gwen Griffith Dickson - 1995 - Liczba stron: 564
...'Lappländer" was Voltaire's (unloving) name for him. Butler's eponymous character. Büchsel cites, 'He'd run in debt by Disputation, and pay with Ratiocination, All this by Syllogisme, true, In Mood and Figure, he would do' (HHE 4, 145). This Quixotic character is of course... | |
 | James E. Person - 1995 - Liczba stron: 578
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 | Michael Billig - 1996 - Liczba stron: 340
...This tendency within rhetoric is well satirized in Samuel Butler's portrayal of the dry rhetorician : He could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a Trope: And when he happened to break off In the middle of his speech, or cough, He had hard words ready, to shew why,... | |
 | Nicholas K. Robinson, Edmund Burke - 1996 - Liczba stron: 233
...symbol of eccentricity. The couplet beneath enviously mocks Burke's great gifts of figurative language: For Rhetoric he could not ope His Mouth but out there flew a Trope. Sayers may have captured the first good caricature likeness but Burke had been strikingly portrayed,... | |
 | Peter Kemp - 1997 - Liczba stron: 512
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