 | John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...talk'd like other folk ; For all a rbetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. 90 But, when he pleas'd to show't, his speech, In loftiness...rich; A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much aifect ; It was a party.colour'd dress 95 Of patch'd and py.ball'd languages; 'Twas English cut on... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...Fur all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he plcas'd to show "t, between Cancer and Erigone, There yet remains a spacious room for thee ; Where the hot Scorpion too ; It was a party-colour'd dress Of patch'd and py-ball'd languages ; Twas English cut on Greek and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1812 - 876 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothiug but to name his tools. 90 But, when he pleas'd to shtw't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich; A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect: It was a party-colourM dress 95 Of f>atch'd and py-ball'd languages : 'Twas English cut on Greek and... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 456 pages
...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...Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect j It was a party -colourM dress Of patch'd and piebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...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...Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect ; It was a party-colour'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Great Britain - 1819 - 390 pages
....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, Which learned pedants much affect ; r. 79. /'••'•' this by syllogism true.] An argument in logic consisting of three propositions,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...other 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...Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect ; It was a party-colour'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages ; Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleas'd to shew't, / ; Jt was a party-coloured dress . Of patch'd and piebald languages; 'Twas English cut on Greek and... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...better, or more forcibly ridiculed, than by the following passage in Hudibras : His ordinary rate of 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 pye'hall'd lan^nases ; •Twas English cut on Greek and... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...forcibly ridiculed, limit by the following passage in Hudibras : His ordinary rate of speech In loltiness of sound was rich, A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect. It was a party-colonr'd dress Of patch'd and pye-balPd lang-uages ; iTwas Enjlish cut on Greek and... | |
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Twas English cut on Greek and Latin, Like fustian heretofore on satin ; It had an odd promiscuous tone, As if h' had talk'd three parts in one ; Which made some think, when he did gabble, Th... 
