Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 67.

For rhetoric, he could not ope

His mouth, but out there flew a trope.

Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 81.

For all a rhetorician's rules

Teach nothing but to name his tools.

Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 89.

A Babylonish dialect

Which learned pedants much affect.

Hudibras. Part i. Canto i. Line 93.