 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 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...affect; It was a party-colour'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages : 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on sattin. It had... | |
 | English periodicals - 1871 - 930 pages
...It celebrated account of Sir Hudibras's intellectual accomplishmei " 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-colour'd dress Of patched and piebald languages : 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleased to shew 't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich; A Babylonish...dialect, Which learned pedants much affect: It was a party-coloured dress Of patched and piebald languages; "Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1871 - 910 pages
...proposition. celebrated account of Sir Hudibras's intellectual accomplish “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-colour'd dress Of patched and piebald languages: ‘Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 pages
...You'd think he talk'd like other folk; 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; 4. It was a party-color'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages ; 'Twas English, cut on Greek and... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1872 - 360 pages
...a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But when he pleased to show % his speecb 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 py-bald languages ; 'Twas English, cut on Greek and Latin, Like... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...rhetorician's rules Tench nothing but to name his tools. But when he pleased to show't, Ыз speech, la loftiness of sound, was rich; A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect; It was a pa.-ty-color'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 464 pages
...used, therefore there lacketh elocution and pronunciation, two of the principal parts of rhetoricke. " It was a party-colour'd dress, Of patch'd and pie-ball'd languages : 'Twas English cut on French and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin." * I know no passage in any speech of an advocate,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleased to shew't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich...dialect, Which learned pedants much affect : It was a party-coloured dress Of patched and piebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk.—Butler. But when he pleased to show't, u r d v qOHPe|v n o v s k k>w?w]q tmw6vdwewfwWv s s piebald languages : 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin.—Butler.... | |
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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... 
