| George Campbell - 1860 - 458 páginas
...Butler, among a thousand other instances, 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."* Here the low. allegorical style of the... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 páginas
...and the singular simile used in the second, constitute the witty points :— " And now had Phcobus in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap: And, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn." Another example follows, in which the comparison... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1864 - 426 páginas
...faith ; Each striving to make good his own, As by the sequel shall be shown. 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 aking 'Twixt... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1864 - 582 páginas
...comparison. Take, as on iustarcu, Ultf following comparison from Hudibiv.s : " 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... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1865 - 476 páginas
...and the singular simile used in the second, constitute the witty points : — " And now had Phcebus in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap: And, like a lobster bnih-d, the morn From black- lo red began to turn." Another example follows, in which the comparison... | |
| Henry Noble Day - 1866 - 342 páginas
...heaven with sacred light. Butler, in his Hudibras, thus describes the same sceie! 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 Burke, in his speech on Conciliation with... | |
| Henry Noble Day - 1867 - 374 páginas
...sacred light." Butler, in his " Hudibras," thus describes the same scene : — " 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." Burke, in his speech on " Conciliation with... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 páginas
...eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl MOBNING — continued. 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. Bailer, Hud. 2, n. 29. Behold what streaks... | |
| John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 páginas
...styl'd ; Then spare the rod and spoil the child.1 Part ii. Canto L Line 843. 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. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 29. Have always been... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 páginas
...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 boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," The imagination modifies images, and gives... | |
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