 | Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 738 pages
...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 - Books - 1785 - 504 pages
...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 pages
...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)... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...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 - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...to all precedent discoveries and rules. The second of the steps abovementioned, which, hy the way, is the first of the rhetorical art, for all that precedes...this, however, the matter hath been exaggerated by the satyrist. Considerable progress had been made by the ancient Greeks and Romans, in devising the proper... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1803 - 522 pages
...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. 90 But, when he pleas'd to fltew't, his fpeech, In loftinefs of found, was rich ; A Babylonifli dialeft,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 560 pages
...what 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. 90 But, when he pleas'd to shew't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...what 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,... | |
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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. 
