...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...

...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...

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...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...

...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 there flew a trope ; And when he happen'd to break off I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, He' had hard words ready to show why,...

...which quite 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,...

...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...

...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...

...pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism true, In mood and figure he would do. For rhetorie, happen'd to break off l' th' middle of his speech, or cough, ! I ' had hard words ready to shew why,...

...Almighty. Pf Ver. 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...