 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1847 - 540 Seiten
...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 - 576 Seiten
...in us. Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night intoday, 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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - 1851 - 192 Seiten
...the Scottish. Butler thus describes the morning, ludicrously, but wittily : " 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." This pleases as an ingenious piece of wit.... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1852 - 314 Seiten
...perhaps, be shown better than by the often-quoted simile of 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." This is usually cited as an instance of... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 Seiten
...so bright, That all th' horizon laugh' d, to see the joyous sight. Dryden. 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. Butler. The morn is up again, the dewy morn,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 760 Seiten
...of 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 554 Seiten
...of some accidental coincidence ; as in the wellknown 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... | |
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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 unity to variety; it sees all things in one, il piu nell 
