 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1871 - 564 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 afi'ect : It was a party-coloured dress Of patched and piebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 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-colored dress Of patched and piebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing hut to name his tools. But, when he pleased to show't, ]iis 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,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1872 - 360 pages
...a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But when he pleased to show % his speecb 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...rhetorician's rules Tench nothing but to name his tools. But when he pleased to show't, Ыз speech, la loftiness of sound, was rich; A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect; It was a pa.-ty-color'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Richard Morris - English language - 1874 - 368 pages
...are yet to be seen, on these plant your footsteps." Butler (" Hudibras," I. i. 91) speaks of: — " A Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect : 'Twas English cut on Greek or Latin, lake fustian heretofore on satin." 43. There are a few miscellaneous Romance words that have... | |
 | Charles McKnight - Fort Duquesne (Pa.) - 1874 - 532 pages
...savages to a grand scalp-lifting. CHAPTER LVIII. TALBOT MAKES A GRAND SENSATION. But when he pleased to show't, his speech, In loftiness of sound, was rich : A Babylonish dialect Of patch'd and pieball'd languages : "T was English cut on Greek and Latin. BUTLER'S Huditras, They... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. But, when he pleased to shew 't, esar's angel : Judge, О you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him ! This was the most unkindest cut of : It was a party-coloured dress Of patched and piebald languages ; 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...WHEN with greatest art he spoke, You'd think he talk'd like other folk.— Butler. But when he pleased ea, Perhaps will hear my prayer It was a party-coloiir'd dress Of patch'd and piebald languages : 'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1877 - 610 pages
...other folk : 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...Babylonish dialect, Which learned pedants much affect ; 1 'Committee-men:' alluding to the Committees appointed by the Parliament, in certain counties, to... | |
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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... 
