 | Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 sider
...why, And i-fil 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 sider
..., 'And tell what 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 , Which learned... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1757 - 464 sider
...what Rules he did it by : life when with greatest Art he /poke , fou' d think he talk'd like othfr Folk. for all a Rhetorician's Rules Teach nothing but to name his Tools. IBut, when he pleas' d to shew't , his Speech In lof tine ff of Sound was rich ; A Babylonish Dialett... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1774 - 254 sider
...why, And tell what rules he did it by : Elfe, when with greate(t 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. Eut, when he pleas'd to (hew't, his fpeech, In lofiinefs of found was rich ; A Babyloni(h dialect,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 738 sider
...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 - 1785 - 504 sider
...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 sider
.... 85 And tell 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)... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 sider
...why, And tell what rules he did it by ; ' Elfe when with grcatcft art he fpolce. 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 fhew*t, his fpeecb, In loftinefs of ibund, was rich ; A Babylonifh dialed, Which learned... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 sider
...why, And tell what 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 - 1801 - 462 sider
...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... | |
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I' th' middle of his speech, or cough, 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. 
