 | Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. 90 But, when he pleased to show't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish...pedants much affect • It was a party-colour'd dress 05 Of patch'd and piebald languages : 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore... | |
 | William Ulick O'Connor Cuffe Earl of Desart - English fiction - 1878 - 344 pages
...disported themselves, and vowed to himself that this fortunate youth was a "real good chap." CHAPTER III In loftiness of sound was rich, A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect: It was a party-coloured dress Of patched and pye-balled languages. Their speech Hudibrai. FOLLOWING Badsworth... | |
 | William Forsyth - Law - 1879 - 450 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." l I know no passage in any speech of an advocate,... | |
 | William Forsyth - Electronic books - 1879 - 458 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." T I know no passage in any speech of an advocate,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 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-colour'd dress Of patched and piebald languages : Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, 4s fustian... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1880 - 362 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-coloured flress Of patched and piebald languages; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1880 - 766 pages
...to name his tools. tc In loftiness of sound, was rich; But, when he pleas'd to show 't, his speech, A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect; It was a party-colour'd dress Of patch'd and pyebald languages ; Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin; It had an... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules 55 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: fu 42. . .•ininilii.i-nn.n. During the English civil war there were formed, in several counties siding... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1881 - 270 pages
...rhetorician's rules 90 Teach nothing but to name his tools. [PART i. But, when he pleased to show't, his speech' In loftiness of sound was rich; A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect. 95 It was a parti-coloured dress Of patched and piebald languages; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1882 - 632 pages
...what rules he did it by; Else, when with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk: Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he...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... 
