 twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. 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,...  The Southern Review - Σελίδα 1541871Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 σελίδες
...squeak. That Latin was no more difficile, Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. Part i. Canto i. Line 67. He could distinguish, and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side. Part i. Canto i. Line 81. For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Part... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 σελίδες
...His bounty unto such as wanted; But much of either would afford To many, that had not one word. . . He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute; He 'd undertake to prove by force Of argument a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 σελίδες
...Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle. HIS LOGIC. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic : He could distinguish, and divide A hair...hands, and still confute : 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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1857 - 374 σελίδες
...was, perhaps, Not as a proselyte, but f@r claps. He was in logic a great critic, 65 Profoundly skill'd in analytic ; He could distinguish, and divide A hair...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute : :o He'd undertake to prove, by force .Of argument, a man's no horse ; V. 55, 56. This is the property... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - 1858 - 422 σελίδες
...scanted His bounty unto such as wanted ; But much of either would afford To many, that had not one word. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled...dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute ; He 'd undertake to prove by force Of argument a man 's no horse ; He 'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,... | |
 | John William Donaldson - 1858 - 398 σελίδες
...kind of explication by way of subdivision, which is exhibited in the Sophiste* (Hudibras, I. i, 65): ' He was in logic a great critic Profoundly skilled...divide, A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.' from that of theHeracleitean Cratylus;1 to show, in fact, that if the Heracleiteans were wrong in their... | |
 | Karl Otfried Müller, John William Donaldson - 1858 - 550 σελίδες
...described the kind of explication by way of subdivision, which is exhibited in the (Hudlbrat, I. i, 65): ' He was in logic a great critic Profoundly skilled...could distinguish and divide, A hair 'twixt south and »outh-west lide.' from that of theHeracleitean Cratylus;1 to show, in fact, that if the Ileracleiteans... | |
 | 1856 - 1026 σελίδες
...dogmatic dictation. Blainville seems always to have been one of those described by Butler in Hudibras : " He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic ! He would distinguish and divide A hair, 'twixt south and south-west side ; On Either which he would dispute,... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 σελίδες
...other opponent who offers. The knight was, we are told, in Logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair...hands, and still confute; 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;... | |
 | 1969 - 440 σελίδες
...Profoundly skill'd in Analytick. He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt South and South- West side : On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. Samuel Butler (161z?-168o), Hudibras, Part I, Canto I George O. May, writing in 1954, suggested that... | |
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