| 1856 - 1432 páginas
...blow." " For what is worth in anything But so much money as " t will bring ? " " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boiled, the morn . From black to red began to turn." " And we are best of all led to Men's... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 páginas
...formal comparison. Take, as an instance, the following comparison from Hudibras : " And now had Phoebus in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap ; And, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn." We find illustrations of burlesque also... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 páginas
...the change of night into day to the change of colour in a boiled lobster. " 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 : When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aching... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 462 páginas
...same accidental coincidence ; as in the well known pass-age from Hudibras : — The Sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From bl-ick to red began to turn. The Imagination modifies images, and gives... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 páginas
...slow approaches, like a virgin. Canto I. With entering manfully and urging; The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap; And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From block to red began to turn. Fart II. Canto II. Books, like men their... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...the short burlesque descriptions are inimitable. For example, of Horning — The sun had long since, xtol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end lobster boil'd, the mom From black to red began to turn. Of Night— The sun grew low and left the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 570 páginas
...some accidental coincidence ; as in the well-known passage in 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. The Imagination modifies images, and gives... | |
| 1847 - 540 páginas
...her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 9. The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the moon From black to red began to turn. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 10. The morning lark,... | |
| DOUGLAS JERROLD - 1848 - 578 páginas
...in us. Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night into day, viz.: " 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." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the... | |
| Douglas Jerrold - 1848 - 578 páginas
...in us. Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night into day, viz. : " 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." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the... | |
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