...daybreak, hastening to change his uniform for the more sober dress of his clerical profession, — " ' So, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn.' " It certainly needed all the importance of the defensive service in which he was engaged, to blend...

...Butler, among a thousand other instances, hath given us those which follow : " And now had Phoebus, m the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap : And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn Froaa black to red began to turn."* Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet, and the simile...

...simplicity of nature. Some of the short burlesque descriptions are inimitable. Fur example, of Morning — The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Of Night— The sun grew low and left the skies, Put down, some write, by ladies' eyes , The moon pull'd...

...bard, the latter with the Scottish. Butler thus describes the morning, ludicrously, but wittily : " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn." This pleases as an ingenious piece of wit. The whimsicamess of the comparison makes us smile ; but...

...vulgar, anti-heroic, anti-poetic attitude towards his material. He loves to cheapen poetic "imagery": The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Since Chaucer's day at least this sort of thing has been good fun, though the lobster is doubtless...

...together by the poet by means of some accidental coincidence; as 1.1 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,t'//>iu nell'...

...in his Hudibras, compares the change of night into day, to the change of color in a boiled lobster: 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: When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aching 'Twixt sleeping...

...author of Hudibras has turned to good account in the getting up of one of his ludicrous similes : " The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap ; And, like a Uibster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn." Hudibrat, part ii. cant. 2. Class 3. The...

...fantaftical Imitation of the Toetical Imagery, and Similitudes of the Morning ? The Sun, longjtnce, had in the Lap Of Thetis taken out his Nap ; And, like a Lobfter boil'd, the Morn, From black to red began to turn. MANY an Orthodox Scotch Tresbyterian (which...

...which there is only one point of similarity between tenor and vehicle, as in Coleridge's examples: And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn, [from Hudibras] and Full gently now she takes him by the hand, A lily prison'd in a gaol of snow [from...