#Hudibras

[wellconstructedsentences]

With vollies of eternal babble.

Hudibras by Samuel Butler

[antiqueanimals]

The Turnspit "Canis vertagus" and the Pug "Le Doguin"

There are two breeds of the turnspit, the one having the forelegs straight, and the other with them crooked. Both are long-backed, short-legged, strange looking animals, and are now rarely kept except as curiosities. Formerly, however, the turnspit had the honour of turning the roast-beef of Old England j but since machinery has been substituted for his fore-paws, Othello’s occupation’s gone. He’s no longer.

"---- a dog that turns the spit,

Bestirs himself, and plies his feet

To climb the wheel; but all in vain,

His own weight brings him back again,

And still he's in the self-same place

Where, at his setting out, he was." (Hudibras)

The right-hand figure in the above engraving represents the pug, a common pet dog a few years ago, but now seldom seen.

Image and text from A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

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[gaynglican]

"Spare the rod and spoil the child" isn't actually in the Bible. It's from a satirical poem called "Hudibras".

Proverbs 13:24 has a similar phrase. The "rod" is a reference to a shepherd's staff, and refers to guiding a child, NOT violence.

The actual quote--"Spare the rod and spoil the child."--first appears in the 17th century, in the satirical poem, Hudibras, written by Samuel Butler. (Hudibras is a satire of Puritanism and heroic poetry.)

In Hudibras Part 2, our "hero" is trying to defraud a rich widow out of her money by marrying her. She has caught onto his plot and wants him to whip himself to prove his love, or else she wants to erotically whip him herself.

She says, "Spare the rod or spoil the child" to him, because she wants to erotically spank him. The verse from Proverbs is satirically perverted here.

(In his 2006 paper, "Spare the rod: The figure of the dominatrix in the literary canon", Jeremy Hugh Baron makes a compelling case for this idea.)

[knick-nudiex]

The saying "spare the rod and spoil the child" suggests that neglecting discipline leads to a child becoming unruly and undisciplined, though it's important to note that the phrase's origin is not directly in the Bible, but rather a 17th-century poem. 

Here's a more detailed explanation:

Origin and Context:While often associated with the Bible, the phrase "spare the rod, spoil the child" is actually from a 17th-century poem called "Hudibras" by Samuel Butler, not the Bible itself. 

Biblical Context:The Bible does contain verses about discipline, such as Proverbs 13:24, which states, "He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him". However, the phrase "spare the rod, spoil the child" is not a direct quote from the Bible. 

Meaning and Interpretation:The saying, whether from the poem or the biblical verses, emphasizes the importance of discipline in raising children and guiding them towards responsible behavior. 

Modern Interpretation:While the concept of discipline is important, the phrase is often misinterpreted as a justification for harsh or physical punishment. Modern interpretations emphasize positive reinforcement, clear communication, and consistent boundaries as effective methods of discipline. 

Alternatives to Physical Punishment:Many parenting experts and families today favor alternative disciplinary methods like "time-outs," positive reinforcement, and open communication. 

[bobulousburntham]

the craziest thing honestly is that so many of us were beaten as kids because “to spare the rod is to spoil the child” was repeated so often in church, by pur grandparents passed to our parents and those pious fucking asshats were quoting Hudibras a poem in which theyre refering to spanking their lover in bed. Explains why so many of them were so damn weird about it.

There is no reason to have a paddle in the home for beatings that you force your victims to sign afterwards. Each. damn. time.

[profamer]

Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Gifts. #poetry #quotes #literature

Gifts. Saints themselves will sometimes be, Of gifts that cost them nothing, free. BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 495. Thank you for visiting! Visit Project Gutenberg to find more stories like this!Contact us!+1 (615) 420-2040+55 (22) 99859-1905Send email

[bobdowling]

The Works of Hogarth.

With sixty-two illustrations.

Published by J. Dicks, 313, Strand.

Hudibras. Plate XII. The Skimmington.

[baeddelicto]

A phrase dubiously attested by sarmatian accounts as early as the 5th century BC in relation to the conquest of the scythians. It has persisted through various transmutations into contemporary history but its most relevant lineage is the satyrical synthesis offered by Samuel Butler in Hudibras.

"If matrimony and hanging go By dest’ny, why not whipping too? What med’cine else can cure the fits Of lovers when they lose their wits? Love is a boy by poets stil’d; Then spare the rod, and spoil the child.”

This phrase, lended authority by one King Solomon, has rung out in school halls, kitchens, and any place a child's flesh has known the love of its betters. The mockery of punishment and capture becoming a litany of its enaction. The process of inversion echoes ad nauseam into the past and future until we arrive in 2004.

The modern iteration of "save a horse, ride a cowboy" is not only emblematic of the hick-hop genre but more broadly of a reactive zeitgeist in the western world as it rebounded from its Post-Soviet Optimism into the War on Terror. We must foster the humble weapon of war through the act of reproducing a new colonial subject, and so we see the recapturing of war as object. The gap from the scythian enaree to the modern cowboy cannot be summed up by linguistic drift however. This refrain has waxed and waned along the edge of empire as reproductive futurism and the ever imminent threat of eschatonic debt meet on the field of battle. This desolation, this empty and lonely field is tilled with the teeth of civilization, insufflated with desiring machines that turns lines of flight to property lines, windswept dunes to barbwire fences; it has brought life to the desert. Femboy to girl, enaree to cowboy, nomad to journeyman. Transient immanence evades. Trancendent imminence collapses. Woe to you, to me, the reader, the subject, we have fumbled the ineffable.

save a girl, rape a femboy

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[frimleyblogger]

Slubberdegullion

Slubberdegullion - a word of invective, now sadly languishing in obscurity #words

Words come into fashion and fade into obscurity all the time in our wonderful language, some shining in the firmament longer than others. While its ability to absorb like a sponge and to loosen its grammatical structure are strengths of the language, English as she is spoken now has lost of its richness and inventiveness. Take invectives. We all use a few choice words from time to time, with the…

[othmeralia]

May 23- World Turtle Day

Hudibras beats Sidrophel and his man Whacum, 1802

The scene, from an episode in Samuel Butler's mock-heroic epic, "Hudibras," shows the title character as he confronts the astrologer Sidrophel in a clandestine laboratory. Angry at the truths of his past which the astrologer has just revealed, Hudibras makes ready to draw his sword and attack. The scene is filled with details of the alchemical and occult works performed there: the astrologer's charts lie open across the table, joined by a globe, map, and tools of navigation and astronomical observation on the floor. At left, a small glass jar contains a miniature human figure—likely a homunculus, a form of 'artificial life' once considered possible. A stuffed crocodile, a swordfish, a turtle, and other creatures hang from the ceiling. To the upper left hangs a human skeleton with an owl on its shoulder, a reminder of the spectre of death.

Citation: Hogarth, William. “Hudibras Beats Sidrophel and His Man Whacum.” Wove paper. London, England: G. and J. Robinson (Paternoster Row, London, England), June 1, 1802. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/pk02cb292. 

[xollii]

"Next succeeded Bladud, [Hudibras'] son, and reigned twenty years. He built Kaerbadus, now Bath, and made hot baths in it for the benefit of the public, which he dedicated to the goddess Minerva; in whose temple he kept fires that never went out nor consumed to ashes, but as soon as they began to decay were turned into balls of stone. About this time [9th century BCE] the prophet Elias prayed that it might not rain upon earth; and it did not rain for three years and six months. This prince was a very ingenious man, and taught necromancy in his kingdom, nor did he leave off pursuing his magical operations, till he attempted to fly to the upper region of the air with wings which he had prepared, and fell upon the temple of Apollo, in the city of Trinovantum [London], where he was dashed to pieces."

-Historia Regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth, trans. Aaron Thompson.

King Bladud was real he did all of that

[harrypotterhousequotes]

HUFFLEPUFF: “And still be doing, never done.” –Samuel Butler (Hudibras)

[un-paso-lejos]

You wound, like Parthians, while you fly,

And kill with a retreating eye.

— Samuel Butler, An Heroical Epistle of Hudibras to His Lady (1678)

زخم ميزنى بوقت گريز همچو پارتيان

و ميكُشى مرا با رميده چشمان

[finnish-art-gallery]

Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington Plate XII, Thomas Cook, 1802, Finnish National Gallery

http://kokoelmat.fng.fi/app?si=RAMSAY+504

[bobdowling]

The Works of Hogarth.

With sixty-two illustrations.

Published by J. Dicks, 313, Strand.

Hudibras. Plate XI. Burning the Rumps.