...attempt and putting on, W^ith 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 nup ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Part II. Canto II. Books,...

...idea, and impregnating ' it with something extraneous.' In Butler's well-known comparison. ' When, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn,' we discover a clever effort of wit, ' associating the original idea ' with a thing to which , in some...

...Beware of the dark lady." With that Sir Jeffery and the jester stole away, leaving Monk with Anthony. " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn." The morning was just breaking, as our friend Sam Butler says, and sounds of footsteps crossing the...

...Some of the short burlesque descriptions are inimitable. For example, of Morning — The sun, liad a be^an to turn. Of Night— The sun grew low and left the skies, Put down, some write, by ladies' eyes;...

...a cudgel's of by the blow." " For what is worth in anything But so much money as 'twill bring ?" " 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." " And we are best of all led to Men's principles...

...cudgel 's of by the blow." " For what is worth in anything But so much money as " t will bring ? " " 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." " And we are best of all led to Men's principles...

...wit, and is a very copious soi Such is that comparison in Hudibr the morning to a boiled lobster : " Like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to tu At first there seems to be no resen when we recollect that the lobster' ing, changed from dark to...

...instances, hath given us those which follow : " And now had Phoebus, in the lap Of Thetis, taken ont his nap : And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn."* Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet, and the simile used in the second, afford us a...

...formal comparison. Take, as an instance, the following 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...

...by the poet by means of some accidental coincidence ; as in the well-known passage in Hudibras ; — The Sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...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^upiii nell'...