 | H. L. Sidney Lear - Quotations - 1882 - 204 pages
...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...shew't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich; Which learned pedants much affect It was a party-coloured dress Of patent and piebald languages: Twas... | |
 | Friedrich Koch - English language - 1868 - 452 pages
...den Puritanern vorgeworfen und verspottet. Hudibras l, 1, 91 : §. 19. For when he pleased to show 4, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich, A Babylonish dialect. Which learned pedants much affect. 'T was English cut on Greek and Latin Like fustian heretofore on satin. Milton sogar unterliegt diesem... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 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: committee-men. During the English civil war there were formed, in several counties siding with Parliament,... | |
 | James L. Ohlson - Elocution - 1883 - 154 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But when he pleased to show it, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect; In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe or Erra Pater ; For he, by geometric scale, Could take... | |
 | Student publications - 1885 - 256 pages
...BR-WN— " Prithee, forgive me ! I did but chide in jest." JS CL-RK—" But when he pleased to show't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect." WP C-DD-NGT-N—" His cogitative faculties immersed In cubibundity of cogitation." GF C-MF-RT—"Diffused... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 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 learne'd pedants * much affect: 42. committee-men. During the English civil war there were formed, in several counties siding with... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1889 - 898 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. It was a parti-coloured dress Of patched and piebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 626 pages
...verse ; particular!; 1 Butler says of Sir Hudibras (part i. canto i. line 89) :— " When he pleased to shew't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich,...dialect, Which learned pedants much affect, It was a particoloured dress Of patch'd and piebald languages, 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin Like fustian... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1890 - 364 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... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - English literature - 1892 - 668 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; It was a party-colored dress Of patched and piebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian... | |
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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... 
