...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...betwcen certain qualities of some mean, and some noble object. Such is that very noted one of Hudibras; ••The sun had, long since, in the lap • Of Thetis,...taken out his nap ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the mom From black to red began to turn." This short sentence contains a double contrast of the same ridiculous...

...some mean, and some noble objeet. Sueh is that very noted one of Iludibras; " The sun had, long siuee, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From blaek to red began to turn." This short sentenee eontains a double eontrast of the same ridieulous...

...are afloat, but when they are run on ground, or laid tip in the dock, become ships again." V. 29-30. The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap.] That is, it was now morning, and the sun had risen from the lap of ocean. V, 40. He rotis'd the Squire,...

...his mother, " how much you used to admire one burlesque simile which he was often repeating— ' Now, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn — ' " " Dear me ! yes, to be sure I do ; and - that was by Hudibras, was it ? " St. Aubyn finding...

...will not be easy to select two lines that have more wit, than his description of the morning. " Now, like a 'lobster boil'd, the morn " From black to red began to turn." This is appropriate to either city or country. In Mr. Hogarth' s Four Times of the Day, ere is only...

...putting on, With entering manfully and urging ; Not slow approaches, like a virgin. . .,!,, • Canto i., The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. * Part II. canto ii. Books, like men their authors, have but one way of coming into the world; but...