 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 pagina’s
...those animals. And a respectable friend, who entertains us with a merry • 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. Rtdiknt, But ii, Ctxii I, PORTRAITURES OF THE FRENCH,... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - 1800 - 574 pagina’s
...with the Scotifh. 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 boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. This pleafes as an ingenious piece of wit.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 842 pagina’s
...faith j Each ftriving to make good his own, As by the fequel (hall be (hov.-n. The fun had long fmce, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap. And, like a lobfter boil'd, the morn I From black to red began to turn ; When Hudibras, whom thoughts 'and akmg... | |
 | George Campbell - 1801 - 462 pagina’s
...Butler, amongst a thousand other instances, hath given us those which follow : And now had Phoebus in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap : And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn *. , i Here the low allegorical style of the first... | |
 | 1801 - 552 pagina’s
...(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.... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 pagina’s
...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 out his nap ; " And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn " From black to red begun to turn." » Also what Dryden makes his renegade say of... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 406 pagina’s
...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 out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From .black to red began to turn. " son whom we admire; and that, when we " smile... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pagina’s
...natural phenomenon, the return of morning, is exhibited in Butler's 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. Here, as in the passage from Homer, is an allegorical... | |
 | Samuel Stanhope Smith - 1812 - 350 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 pagina’s
...manfully and urging ; Not slow approaches, like a virgin. . .,!,, • Canto i., 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. * Part II. canto ii. Books, like men their authors,... | |
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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," The imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety ; it sees all things in one, il piti nelV uno. 
