 | 1856 - 606 lehte
...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," &c. But the clenching passage would, of course, be that describing the knight's religion : "... | |
 | George Campbell - 1845 - 444 lehte
...distributed and classed, the forms of argument, the tropes and figures of speech, with their divisions and subdivisions, are explained. By the third, the...this, however, the matter hath been exaggerated by thp satirist. Considerable progress had been made by the ancient Greeks and Romans in devising the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 lehte
...rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest ait 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 '(., his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich ; A Babylonish dialect,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 lehte
...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 lehte
...rules he did it by : Ehie, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk ; ther. He beginneth not with obscure definitions ; But, when he pleas'd to show't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect, Which... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 lehte
...what rules he did it by : Else when with greatest art he spoke, Yon'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 - 1850 - 596 lehte
...rules he did it by ; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, Yon'd think he talked like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. 1 Member* of the committees for conducting the sequestrations or receiving the compositions of the... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1851 - 910 lehte
...CHARACTER AS A STUDENT. 611 and informs it. True eloquence was never yet the handiwork of man, — " For all a rhetorician's rules, Teach nothing but to name his tools." So of intellectual power, it is no mere device of human invention. Books are, indeed, useful in their... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 lehte
...rules he did it by: Else, when with greatest art he spoke, Yon'd think he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. Hut, when he pleas'd to show % his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect, Which... | |
 | Samuel Stehman Haldeman - 1851 - 110 lehte
...Pope's Homer's Iliad, iv. 485. H' had hard words r&dy to show wh^ And t6ll what rules he did it b^; . For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. NOTES. English poetry is written and read appreciatingly without a knowledge of the Latin feet, with... | |
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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. 
