Till pots, and pans, and mighty kettles ring. 0 culinary Sage! (I do not mean the herb in use, That always goes along with goose,) How have I feasted on thy page ! " When like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," Till midnight,... The British Poets - Página 2601866Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Henry Luttrell - 1820 - 248 páginas
...worthy of the middle ages. Note 22, page 118, line 14. " Shift, like boiled lobsters, to the red" And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn. Hudibras. Note 23, page 12O, line 5 Now for my favourite Martingale. A Martingale is when a punter,... | |
| William Oxberry - 1821 - 378 páginas
...use, That always goes along with goose) How have I feasted on thy page ! " When like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn," Till midnight, when I went to bed, And clapp'd my tewah-diddle * on my head. Who is there cannot tell, Thou lead'st a life of living well... | |
| 1821 - 724 páginas
...always goes along with goose) How have I feasted on thy page ! " When like a lobster boil'd, the mom From black to red began to turn," Till midnight, when I went to bed, And clapp'd my tewah-ditldle * on my head. Who is there cannot tell, Thou lead'st a life of living well... | |
| William Oxberry - 1824 - 382 páginas
...That always goes along with goose) ( How have I feasted on thy page ! " When like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn," Till midnight, when I went to bed, And clapp'd my tewah-diddle* on my head. Who is there cannot tell, Thou lead'st a life of living well ?... | |
| George Combe - 1830 - 738 páginas
...then, do the comparisons which arc witty, such as those already cited, or Hnilibras's famous simile, " When, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," differ from those which arc not witty ? This brings us at last to the true definition of Wit, and to... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 páginas
...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 in those instances, where objects of real dignity and importance... | |
| Catharine Esther Beecher - 1831 - 464 páginas
...ideas, in bombastic writing : " 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." The sublime ideas connected with the sun, and the classical associations united with the name of Thetis,... | |
| Amos Dean - 1834 - 266 páginas
...incongruity appearing where a congruity was expected." As, for instance, in the similie in Hudibras : " When, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn." Or, " He had been beaten till he knew The wood whereof the cudgel grew, And kicked until he could tell... | |
| Archibald Bell - 1835 - 456 páginas
...known simile in Hudibras : — But now the sun long since his nap Had taken out in Thetis' lap, And, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn. Here the qualities of resemblance, the colours of black and red, are applied in a literal sense to... | |
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