| Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1842 - 516 pages
...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... | |
| Arts - 1842 - 586 pages
...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... | |
| English literature - 1842 - 594 pages
...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... | |
| Hampton Court - 1844 - 978 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...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;... | |
| 1856 - 1432 pages
...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... | |
| American literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...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... | |
| James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...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... | |
| George Campbell - English language - 1845 - 444 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1845 - 488 pages
...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... | |
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