 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1869 - 564 pages
...formal comparison. Take, as an instarce, 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." W<; find illustrations of burlesque also... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1869 - 168 pages
...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, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn ; When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aching... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...styled ; Then spare the rod and spoil the child.* Part ii. Canto i. Line 843. 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. Part ii. Canto ii. Line 29. Have always been... | |
 | John T. Watson - 1869 - 524 pages
...morn ; her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. Thn sun hnd long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the moon From black to red began to turn. BUTLER'S Hudibras. The morning lark, the... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...God, and love of Man. POPE, Essay on Man, Epistle iv, lines 339, 340 Morn. — 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. BUTLER, Hudibras, II, ii, lines 29-32 The... | |
 | Bertram Waldrom Matz - 1906 - 486 pages
...thirteenth of May." To match this homely comparison one has to go to Hudibras : — The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. When Tracy Tupman is pictured as sitting... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone, Margaret Drummond - 1907 - 524 pages
...Coleridge quotes as an example of fancy the following verse from Hudibras: — ' The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boy] Yl, the morn From black to red began to turn.' As an example of constructive imagination... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 pages
...choose, But they no charter to refuse. S. BUTLEB (Hudibras). 139. THE MORN 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. S. BUTLEB (Hudibras). 140. MODERN PROWESS... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1909 - 336 pages
...in the classical epics. Cf. Butler's similar burlesque, in Hudibras, — " The sun liad 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." 224 : 10. imp. The word properly means '... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 pages
...that sweeps the cool clear sky. 3344 William Cnllen Bryant: The Strange Lady. The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Mornings are mysteries ; the first world's... | |
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The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster 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, il piu nell 
