...admitted into a serious composition. Of this form, the following are specimens : — " And now had Fhcebus in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And, like...boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn." Hudibras. The next is from the same poem : — " Great on the bench, great in the saddle, That could...

...simile used in the second, constitute the witty points ;—- " And now had Phoebus in the lap Of Thetla taken out his nap: And, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn." Another example follows, in which the comparison of the sublima blast and the angry thunder to trivial...

...with little and ignoble objects, and must feel the force of this association in the following lines oi Hudibras : " 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." Again — " Cardan believed great states depend...

...Martinsburg and entered upon the last hundred miles that separated them from Baltimore, The sun had in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap. And like a...boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn. In more matter of fact prose it was sunrise, and the bright rays of the luminary revealed grace and...

...things great and eminent, Butler, among 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."* Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet,...

...intellectually speaking — is expressed in Hudibras with vastly different effect : " The sun had, long since, in the lap " Of thetis. taken out his nap ; " And, like a lobster boiled, the mom " From black to red began to turn." Or, take this example, — more nearly iu the sphere of eloquence,...

...compares the change of night into day to the change of color in a boiled lobster : The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap; And like a lobster boil'd. the moru From black to red began to turn, When Hndibros, &o. Wit, or ludicrous invention, produces...

...lobster on being boiled, a transformation which served the witty author of Mudibras as a simile : Now, like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn. The shell of the lobster is imbued with a black or bluish-black pigment, secreted by the true skin,...

...things great and eminent, Butler, among 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."* Here the low. allegorical style of the first couplet,...

...and the singular simile used in the second, constitute the witty points :— " And now had Phcobus in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap: And, like...boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn." Another example follows, in which the comparison of the sublime blast and the angry thunder to trivial...