 | Francis Edward Paget - 1843 - 344 pages
...when with greatest art he spoke You'd think he talk'd like other folk But when he pleas'd to shew't, his speech In loftiness of sound was rich, A Babylonish dialect. Which leained pedants much affect." BUTLEE. THE sentiment which Shakspear has put into the mouth of Trinculo,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, , , : It was a party-colour'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleas'd to show '(., his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich ; A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect ; It was a particolour'd dress Of patch'd and pieball'd languages ; 'T was English cut on Greek and... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...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 affect ; It was a particolor'd dress Of patch'd and pieball'd languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...he talk'd like other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, asou of all, which is, that it disposcth the constitution...bo fixed or settled in the defects thereof, but s : It was a party-colour'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages ; Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules 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 py-ball'd languages : 'Twas English cut on Greek and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...other folk ; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleos'd Robert Chamb0r9 aflect : It was a partyH'olour'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages ; Twas English cut on (¡reek... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1850 - 528 pages
...other folk. For all a Rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. His ordinary rate of speech In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect ; It was a parti-color'd dress Of patch'd and piebalr1 languages : 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...; For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. Hut, when he pleas'd to show % 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 piebald languages ; 'T was English cut on Greek and... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 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-color'd dress Of patch'd and py-bald languages ; 'Twas English, cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
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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... 
