 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 pages
...name his tools. 90 But, when he pleas'd to show % his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich ; À Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect ; It was a party-colour'd dress 95 £)f patch'd and pyebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when lie pleas'd to show 't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich; A Babylonish...affect: It was a party-colour'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages; 'T was English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin. It had... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...folk; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But when he pleased to show't, his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich; A Babylonish...dialect, Which learned pedants much affect; It was a party-color'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages ; Twas English out on Greek and Latin, Like fustian... | |
 | English language - 1858 - 348 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But when he pleased to show 't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect; Of patch'd and py-bald languages; It was a party-color'd dress 'Twas English, cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | English language - 1860 - 366 pages
...Teach nothing but to name his tools. For all a rhetorician's rules But when he pleased to show 't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich; A Babylonish...dialect, Which learned pedants much affect; It was a pfarty-color'd dress Of patch'd and py-bald languages ; Like fustian, heretofore, on satin. Twas English,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...folk; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But when he pleased to show't, his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich; A Babylonish...dialect, Which learned pedants much affect; It was a party-color'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages; Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...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, Which learned pedants much... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 346 pages
...flew a trope,' he finishes the account of his conversation thus— ' But, when he pleas'd to show't, his speech, In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish...dialect Which learned pedants much affect; It was a parti-coloured dress Of patch'd and piebald languages; Twas English, cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1862 - 328 pages
...flew a trope,' he finishes the account of his conversation thus— ' But, when he pleas'd to show't, his speech, In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish...dialect Which learned pedants much affect; It was a parti-coloured dress Of patch'd and piebald languages; 'Twas English, cut on Greek and Latin, Like... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 360 pages
...flew a trope,' he finishes the account of Ins conversation thus— • But, when he pleas'd to show't, his speech, In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish...dialect Which learned pedants much affect; It was a parti-coloured dress Of patch'd and piebald languages; 'Twas English, cut on Greek and Latin, Like... | |
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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 learned pedants much affect : " It was a party-colour'd dress " Of patch'd and pieball'd languages: " 'Twas... 
