...have suffer'd for their 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, so " old round-headed stoics to find out whether bonum was corpus, or " virtue an animal ; about which...

...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...

...Butler, amongst a thousand other instances, hath given us those which follow : And now had Phcebus in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap : And, like...lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn 4. Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet, and the simile used in the second, afford us...

...of this association in the following lines of Hudibras : ' And now had Phteims in the lap Of Thctia taken out his nap; And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn." Again : " Cardan believed great states depend Upon the tip of the Bear's tail's end; That as he whisk'd...

...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...

...recollection soon gunk together, bound in the chains of sleep. Г CHAPTER XI. " The Sun had long «¡осе, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lohster hoil'd, the moon From hlack to red hegan to turn, When, ruhbing first, my drowsy eyes, From...

...having reached the tum, they took the bridle-road, and returned by Rydalmere to Ambleside. ******* ' 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,' hefore (as the fine writers have it) sleep visited...

...idea, and impregnating it with some' thing 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...

...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...

...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...