 | Samuel Stanhope Smith - 1812 - 350 páginas
...mean, and some noble object. Such is that very noted one of Hudibras; ••The sun had, long since, in the lap • Of Thetis, taken out his nap ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the mom From black to red began to turn." This short sentence contains a double contrast... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 páginas
...manfully and urging ; Not slow approaches, like a virgin. . .,!,, • Canto i., 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. * Part II. canto ii. Books, like men their... | |
 | Charles Frederick Bennett - 1817 - 174 páginas
...sow'd the earth with orient pearl." or as Butler less dignified expresses it, " The sun had long since in the lap " Of Thetis taken out his nap ; " And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn f Froni black to red began to turn." This latter description did not present... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 páginas
...With entering manfully and urging; Not slow approaches, like a virgin. Canto 1. 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. Part II. canto 2. And in this the world may... | |
 | 1829 - 612 páginas
...to examples. First, wit may be said to arise from a ludicrous comparison : — ' 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.' Hudibras, part ii. canto "2. Here there... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 416 páginas
...faith; Eaeh striving to make good his own, As by the sequel shall be shown. The sun had long sinee, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From blaek to red began to turn; When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aking 'Twixt... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 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 Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 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... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 504 páginas
...to examples. First, wit may be said to arise from a ludicrous comparison : — 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. Hudibras, part ii. canto 2Here there is no... | |
 | 1825 - 486 páginas
...to examples. First, wit may be said to arise from a ludicrous comparison : — And now had Phoebus in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the moru From black to red began to turn. Hudibras, part ii. canto 2. Here there is... | |
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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 
