10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLONELLING»
Discover the use of
colonelling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
colonelling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide
... dwelling, And out he rode a Colonelling. (Butler 1; lines 1-14) As we will see,
such deliberately awkward rhymes (dwelling/Colonelling) are an essential part of
comic and satiric verse (then and now), as is the mixture of high and low diction ...
2
The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler: With Life and Critical ...
1 ' He rode a-colonelling : ' the Knight (if Sir Samuel Luke was Mr Butler's hero)
was not only a Colonel in the Parliament army, but also Scoutmaster- general in
the counties of Bedford, Surrey, &c. — * ' Mirror of Knighthood : ' there was a book
...
Samuel Butler, Charles Cowden Clarke, 1868
1 ' He rode a-colonelling : ' the Knight (if Sir Samuel Luke was Mr Butler's hero)
was not only a Colonel in the Parliament army, but also Scoutmaster- general in
the counties of Bedford, Surrey, &c. — 2 ' Mirror of Knighthood : ' there was a
book ...
4
A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and ...
And for thy sake 1 have shed many a tear. 1 Paat K. Hen. vi* Sweet villain ! most
dearest, my collop. Wintea's Tale. Colonelling, a word invented by Butler to
signify the riding forth in the capacity of a colonel, in allusion to Hudibras, the
notn de ...
5
Nichol's library edition of the British poets: with memoir ...
1 ' He rode a-colonelling:' the Knight (if Sir Samuel Luke was Mr Butler's hero)
was not only a Colonel in the Parliament army, but also Scoutmaster- general in
the counties of Bedford, Surrey, &c. — * ' Mirror of Knighthood : ' there was a book
...
George Gilfillan, William Shakespeare, 1862
6
A glossary and etymological dictionary of obsolete and ...
Colonelling, a word invented by Butler to signify the riding forth in the capacity of
a colonel, in allusion to Hudibras, the nom de guerre of Sir Samuel Luke, who
was a Colonel in the service of the Republican Parliament, Then did sir knight ...
7
Hudibras: In three parts, written in the time of the late wars
10 With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was
beat with fist, instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out
he rode a colonelling. instrument of the two : for the latter serves only to rouse the
...
8
Plain-Dealing, in answer to Plain-English, a sermon ... for ...
And Pulpit, Dntffl-Ecclefiajtick, Was beat with Fist, instead of a Stick- Then did Sir
Prig abandon Dwelling, And out he went a Colonelling. Phil. How can a Parson
be Sir Prig ? Orth. That's soon answered ,. for he's only a Bachelor of Arts j and as
...
... of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd
rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist, instead
of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
In line 7, however, he begins a series of more complex polysyllabic rhymes: '
swear for' / 'wherefore'; 'surrounded' / 'sounded'; 'Ecclesiastick' / 'a stick'; 'dwelling'
/ 'Colonelling'. The ingenuity here is very much like that shown by the waspish ...
John Strachan, Richard Terry, 2011
