 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 trang
...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 ! Faire boil'd, the mom From black to red began to turn. Of Night— The sun grew low and left the skies, Put... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 462 trang
...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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 trang
...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,... | |
 | 1847 - 540 trang
...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 570 trang
...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 lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1848 - 576 trang
...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 lobster boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same... | |
 | DOUGLAS JERROLD - 1848 - 578 trang
...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 lobster boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1848 - 578 trang
...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 lobster boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 trang
...Butler, among a thousand other instances, hath given us those which follow : " And now had Phoebus, m the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap : And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn Froaa black to red began to turn."* Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet,... | |
 | Allan Ramsay - 1851 - 192 trang
...the Scottish. Butler thus describes the morning, ludicrously, but wittily : " 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." This pleases as an ingenious piece of wit. The whimsicamess... | |
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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. 
