| 1801 - 552 ÆäÀÌÁö
...(Scottifh). Butler thus defcribes the morning, ludicroufly, but wittily : " The fun had long fince, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap ; , And, like a lobfter boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn. " This pleafes as an ingenious piece of wit.... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1805 - 440 ÆäÀÌÁö
...have suffered 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, 30 And, like a lobster hoil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn, When HUDIRS.IS, whom thoughts... | |
| Robert Forsyth - 1805 - 540 ÆäÀÌÁö
...wit. Thus the author of Hudibras finds a resemblance between the morning and a boiled lobster: When like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. A man of science, on the contrary, exerts his judgment to discover wherein objects differ from each... | |
| James Beattie - 1807 - 444 ÆäÀÌÁö
...give one Instance, is that comparison in Hudibras,of the dawn of the morning to a boiled lobster; * like a lobster ' boil'd the morn from black to red began to turn.* At first, there seems to be no resemblance at all : but, when we recollect, that the lobster's colour... | |
| Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 ÆäÀÌÁö
...good his own, As by the seqnel shall be shown. The snn had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken ont his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to tnrn ; When Hndibras, whom thonghts and aking Twixt sleeping kept, all night, and waking, Began to... | |
| James Beattie - 1809 - 406 ÆäÀÌÁö
...so " it is said, we may imagine a transient infe» riority, either real or assumed, even in a per* The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...boil'd, the morn From .black to red began to turn. " son whom we admire; and that, when we " smile at Butler's allusion, we for a moment " conceive him... | |
| George Gregory - 1809 - 384 ÆäÀÌÁö
...combination is made in the very words, as in the passage of Hudibras. quoted by, I think, Lord Kaimes " The sun had long since in the lap " Of Thetis taken...like a lobster boil'd, the morn " From black to red begun to turn." » Also what Dryden makes his renegade say of priests, which by the way is stolen by... | |
| John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 ÆäÀÌÁö
...now see how the same natural phenomenon, the return of morning, is exhibited in Butler's Hudibras. The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Here, as in the passage from Homer, is an allegorical personage rising from sleep ; and thus far the... | |
| John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans - 1810 - 508 ÆäÀÌÁö
...junction of things by distant and fanciful relations Thus in the following simile from Hudibras, Now like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. the total dissimilarity of the objects in every circumstance, except that which brings them forcibly... | |
| Samuel Stanhope Smith - 1812 - 732 ÆäÀÌÁö
...some mean, and some noble objeet. Sueh is that very noted one of Hudibras; " The sun had, long sinee, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap ; And, like...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn." • This short sentenee eontains a double eontrast of the same ridieulous ^ind; one between the sun... | |
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