143 examples of hudibras in sentences

Cowley, Sir John Birkenhead, and Hudibras, alias Sam.

Hudibras questions well, What mad lover ever dy'd To gain a soft and easy bride?

In 1663 Samuel Butler (1612-1680) published a famous satire, entitled Hudibras.

I fully believe you; for, as we may read in Hudibras A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still.

In this country, the man who brought the New river to London, was ruined by that noble project; and, in this country, Otway died for want, on Tower hill; Butler, the great author of Hudibras, whose name can only die with the English language, was left to languish in poverty; the particulars of his life almost unknown, and scarce a vestige of him left, except his immortal poem.

B.C. 540.) CROWDE'RO, one of the rabble leaders encountered by Hudibras at a bear-baiting.

S. Butler, Hudibras, i. 2 (1664).

The Great, General Lord Fairfax (1611-1671).S. Butler, Hudibras.

Butler, Hudibras, iii. 1 (1678).

First came, in 1671, the "Rehearsal," a play concocted among various wits of the time, including Sprat, Clifford, poor Butler, of "Hudibras," and chiefly the Duke of Buckingham.

Butler, in his Hudibras, somewhere uses the word Chineses; and it was, perhaps, in his day, common; but still, I say, it is contrary to analogy, and therefore wrong.

"Hudibras. OBS.

"Hudibras. CHAPTER XII.QUESTIONS.

"Hudibras, i, 365.

'"Hudibras, iii, 316.

"Hudibras, p. 102.

"Hudibras, P. i, C. i, l. 90.

The pomp of the ceremony was a kind of rhapsody, and fitter, I think, for Hudibras, than him; because the cavalcade was mostly burlesque: but he was an extraordinary man, and buried after an extraordinary fashion; for I do believe there was never such another burial seen.

Yet the perpetual scintillation of Butler's wit is too dazzling to be delightful; and we can seldom read far in "Hudibras" without feeling more fatigue than pleasure.

In the Great Hall, now roofless, Milton's masque Comus was performed for the first time, and Samuel Butler is said to have written part of Hudibras in a little room over the entrance gateway.

HUDDESFORD, Rev. Dr., Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, i. 280, 322; Johnson's letter to him, i. 282. Hudibras.

In the Catalogue of the English [who ] fell, Witherington's Behaviour is in the same manner particularized very artfully, as the Reader is prepared for it by that Account which is given of him in the Beginning of the Battle [; though I am satisfied your little Buffoon Readers (who have seen that Passage ridiculed in Hudibras) will not be able to take the Beauty of it: For which Reason I dare not so much as quote it].

[Footnote 2: Hudibras, Part I., Canto 3, II.

A grave divine could not answer all his playhouse and Alsatia cant, &c. He hath read Hudibras, and many plays.

This from Hudibras.

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