 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 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-color'd dress Of patcli'd and piebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | David Sherman - Christian biography - 1860 - 462 pages
...old horseshoe, or plow-point, or the like. In this respect Mather reminds us of Butler's hero whose speech " In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect; It was a party-colored dress Of patched and pybald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin... | |
 | David Sherman - Clergy - 1860 - 470 pages
...old horseahoe, or plow-point, or the like. In this respect Mather reminds us of Butler's hero whoso speech " In loftiness of sound was rich ; A Babylonish dialect "Which learned pedants ranch affect; It was a party-colored dress Of patched and pybald languages ; 'Tvvas English out on... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 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 party-colour'd dress Of patch'd and py-bald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1862 - 360 pages
...His mouth hut out there flew a trope,' he finishes the account of Ins conversation thus — • But, when he pleas'd to show't, his speech, In loftiness...Babylonish dialect Which learned pedants much affect ; It was a parti-coloured dress Of patch'd and piebald languages ; 'Twas English, cut on Greek and... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 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 ; "1'was English cut oil Greek and... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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-color'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages; Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1864 - 426 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,... | |
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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... 
