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Hudibrastic
Hudibrastic Hu`di*bras"tic, a. Similar to, or in the style of, the poem ``Hudibras,' by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. --Macaulay.

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- descriptions of Hudibras and Ralpho. "Never did trusty Squire with Knight, Or Knight with squier jump more right" (I:i:619f; p. 19). Hudibras  is described...
- Bentley. "'Hudibras' Butler Abroad", Modern Language Notes, Vol. 60, No. 4, April 1945, pp.254–9 Norma E. Bentley. "A Grant to 'Hudibras' Butler", Modern...
- reference to Rud Hud Hudibras is featured in the title and character of Samuel Butler's mock-heroic poem Hudibras (1663–1678). Rud Hud Hudibras is a primary character...
- (1666–1689) was a lawyer and poet, chiefly remembered as the author of The Irish Hudibras, a caricature of Irish customs and language based on Book VI of Virgil's...
- com: online text of Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1805 edition Part 2, Canto 2, lines 565–844 describe the mock-heroic attack by Hudibras and his squire Ralpho...
- Regum Britanniae (c. 1136), which describes him as the son of King Rud Hud Hudibras, and the tenth ruler in line from the first king, Brutus, saying Bladud...
- And kill with a retreating eye. — Samuel Butler, An Heroical Epistle of Hudibras to His Lady (1678) That last Parthian shot went home. — Agatha Christie...
- burlesque are Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Samuel Butler's Hudibras. An example of musical burlesque is Richard Strauss's 1890 Burleske for...
- a civil war, during which he died. He was succeeded by his son Rud Hud Hudibras. Geoffrey ****erts that Leil reigned at the time when Solomon built the...
- literature of the day. Samuel Butler used them as a metaphor in his poem Hudibras in 1663, and Pepys refers to them in his diary. The drops were immortalized...