| John Bell - English poetry - 1797 - 722 pages
...f.fr.^t si" f .^ 'vaifr.i£.i, ..•» k: za'S s:i...'£, ^u.;w«i.. 3l6 HUDIRRAS. Pitt 1t, And, lite a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn; ' • . When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aking 'Twixt sleeping kept, all night, and waking, Began to... | |
| Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 pages
...entertains us with a merry • The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap , And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn. Rtdiknt, But ii, Ctxii I, PORTRAITURES OF THE FRENCH, BIFORE AND SINCB THE REVOLUTION. CONSIDER.',;;.... | |
| George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 462 pages
...hath given us those which follow : And now had Phoebus in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap : And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn *. , i Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet, and the simile used in the second, afford... | |
| Robert Forsyth - Ethics - 1805 - 540 pages
...wit. Thus the author of Hudibras finds a resemblance between the morning and a boiled lobster: When like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. A man of science, on the contrary, exerts his judgment to discover wherein objects differ from each... | |
| Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 pages
...by the seqnel shall be shown. The snn had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken ont his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to tnrn ; When Hndibras, whom thonghts and aking Twixt sleeping kept, all night, and waking, Began to... | |
| James Beattie - Classical education - 1809 - 406 pages
...real or assumed, even in a per* The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From .black to red began to turn. " son whom we admire; and that, when we " smile at Butler's allusion, we for a moment " conceive him... | |
| John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - Ballads, English - 1810 - 508 pages
...junction of things by distant and fanciful relations Thus in the following simile from Hudibras, Now like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. the total dissimilarity of the objects in every circumstance, except that which brings them forcibly... | |
| John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...exhibited in Butler's Hudibras. The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap , And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Here, as in the passage from Homer, is an allegorical personage rising from sleep ; and thus far the... | |
| Amelia Opie - 1812 - 444 pages
...his mother, " how much you used to admire one burlesque simile which he was often repeating— ' Now, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn — ' " " Dear me ! yes, to be sure I do ; and - that was by Hudibras, was it ? " St. Aubyn finding... | |
| Samuel Stanhope Smith - Ethics - 1812 - 732 pages
...very noted one of Hudibras; " The sun had, long sinee, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn." • This short sentenee eontains a double eontrast of the same ridieulous ^ind; one between the sun... | |
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