 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 570 pages
...some accidental coincidence ; as in the well-known passage in Hudibras ; — The Sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a...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^upiii nell'... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 338 pages
...of some accidental coincidence ; as in the well-known passage in Hudibras,— The Sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a...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, it piii tail'... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...slow approaches, like a virgin. Canto I. With entering manfully and urging; The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap; And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From block to red began to turn. Fart II. Canto II. Books, like men their authors, have but one way of coming... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 462 pages
...same accidental coincidence ; as in the well known pass-age from Hudibras : — The Sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From bl-ick to red began to turn. The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety : it sees... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...the short burlesque descriptions are inimitable. For example, of Horning — The sun had long since, xtol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end ! Fairest mom From black to red began to turn. Of Night— The sun grew low and left the skies, Put down, some... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 9. The sun had 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. 10. The morning lark, the messenger of day,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...For example, of Morning — The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out liis nap, Aud, tow'r, Where 1 may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice-ineat He Of Night— The sun grew low and left the skies, Put down, some write, by ladies' eyes J The moon pull'd... | |
 | DOUGLAS JERROLD - 1848 - 578 pages
...in us. Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night into day, viz.: " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a...boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject— " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1848 - 576 pages
...in us. Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night intoday, viz. : " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a...boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject — " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest... | |
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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... 
