 He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.  Knight's Penny Magazine - Էջ 311844Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Bell - 1797 - 722 էջ
...goose a justice, 75 And rooks Committee.men and Trustees. IleM run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination: All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. 8a For rbetorie, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 էջ
...goose a Justice, 75 Arid roobi Committee-men and Trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. 8° ForRnETOHie, he cou'd not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope : And when lir- happun'd to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1811 - 510 էջ
...Pride, and Reason ; nor is her brow so smooth, nor her mien so soft and captivating, as in her earlier All this by syllogism, true '. In mood and figure, he would do." .- '„ • And again: — '.f . " Besides, he was a sbrewd philosopher, And had read ev'ry text and... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 էջ
...goose a justice, • 15 And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do. 80 For rhctoric^lie could not ope His month, but out their flew a trope; And when he happen'd to break... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - 1817 - 626 էջ
...a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees He'll run in debt by disputation, And pay, with ratiocination. All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he will do. For rhetorick, he cannot ope His mouth, bat out there flies a trope. He can reduce all things... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 էջ
...alderman,fa goose a justice, And rooks committee-men* and trustees, He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination : All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. * Thus dunged in the editions of 1674, 1684, 1689, 1694, 1700, And truly so perhaps he was, 'Tis many... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 էջ
...And rooks eommittee-ment and trustees, He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratioeination: All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he would do. * Thus ehanged tn the editions of I674,I684,I689,IS94,J700, And truly so perhaps he was, 'Tts many... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 էջ
...a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees : He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination: All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure he would do." Though it is thus admitted, that little advantage is to be derived from syllogism, let it not be imagined,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 էջ
...alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay For rhetorie, he could not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope: And when he happen'd to break... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 էջ
...And rooks eommittee-men and truste«*. He'd run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratioeination : ign seeure, and, in my ehoiee, To reign is worth ambition t For rhetorie, he eould not ope His mouth but out there flew a trope: And when he happen'd to break... | |
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