| John Bell - 1797 - 722 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1801 - 462 páginas
...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 - 1805 - 540 páginas
...called 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... | |
| James Beattie - 1807 - 444 páginas
...give one Instance, is that comparison in Hudibras,of the dawn of the morning to a boiled lobster; * like a lobster ' boil'd the morn from black to red began to turn.* At first, there seems to be no resemblance at all : but, when we recollect, that the lobster's colour... | |
| Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 páginas
...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 - 1809 - 406 páginas
...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 Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 páginas
...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... | |
| John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - 1810 - 508 páginas
...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... | |
| 1812 - 474 páginas
...will not be easy to select two lines that have more wit, than his description of the morning. " Now, like a 'lobster boil'd, the morn " From black to red began to turn." This is appropriate to either city or country. In Mr. Hogarth' s Four Times of the Day, ere is only... | |
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