A Logician is "one, that has been broke / To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke, And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples, / To put his wits into a kind of Trammells."
— Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for J. and R. Tonson
Date
1759
Metaphor
A Logician is "one, that has been broke / To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke, And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples, / To put his wits into a kind of Trammells."
Metaphor in Context
Logitians use to clap a Proposition,
As Justices do Criminals, in Prison;
And in as Learnd Authentique Nonsense writ,
The Names of all their Moodes and figures fit;
For a Logician's one, that has been broke
To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke,
And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples,
To put his wits into a kind of Trammells.
As Justices do Criminals, in Prison;
And in as Learnd Authentique Nonsense writ,
The Names of all their Moodes and figures fit;
For a Logician's one, that has been broke
To Ride and Pace his Reason by the Booke,
And by their Rules, and Precepts, and Examples,
To put his wits into a kind of Trammells.
Categories
Provenance
Searching "rule" and "reason" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Text from Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose, ed. René Lamar (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1928).
See "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in vol. I of The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (London: J. and R. Tonson, 1759): 266. <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Lamar titles the poem "Virtuoso" and refers it to the "Poetical Thesaurus;" the title-term is found in Thyer's Genuine Remains and adopted by Lamar. The verses cited are an untitled poem from "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in Tonson's edition and elsewhere, though the "Virtuoso" version may derive from manuscript sources--sadly--unspecified in Lamar. (See Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose by Samuel Butler, René Lamar: Review by J. H. Lobban, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul., 1929), pp. 352-355.)
Bibliographical description contributed by James Ascher.
See "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in vol. I of The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (London: J. and R. Tonson, 1759): 266. <Link to ESTC><Link to ECCO>
Lamar titles the poem "Virtuoso" and refers it to the "Poetical Thesaurus;" the title-term is found in Thyer's Genuine Remains and adopted by Lamar. The verses cited are an untitled poem from "Miscellaneous Thoughts" in Tonson's edition and elsewhere, though the "Virtuoso" version may derive from manuscript sources--sadly--unspecified in Lamar. (See Satires and Miscellaneous Poetry and Prose by Samuel Butler, René Lamar: Review by J. H. Lobban, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul., 1929), pp. 352-355.)
Bibliographical description contributed by James Ascher.
Date of Entry
06/10/2004
Date of Review
06/14/2011
