...f.fr.^t si" f .^ 'vaifr.i£.i, ..•» k: za'S s:i...'£, ^u.;w«i.. 3l6 HUDIRRAS. Pitt 1t, And, lite a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn; ' • . When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aking 'Twixt sleeping kept, all night, and waking, Began to...

...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....

...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...

...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...lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn *. , i Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet, and the simile used in the second, afford...

...(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....

...have suffered for their 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, 30 And, like a lobster hoil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn, When HUDIRS.IS, whom thoughts...

...wit. Thus the author of Hudibras finds a resemblance between the morning and a boiled lobster: When like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. A man of science, on the contrary, exerts his judgment to discover wherein objects differ from each...

...give one Instance, is that comparison in Hudibras,of the dawn of the morning to a boiled lobster; * like a lobster ' boil'd the morn from black to red began to turn.* At first, there seems to be no resemblance at all : but, when we recollect, that the lobster's colour...

...good his own, As by the seqnel shall be shown. The snn had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken ont his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to tnrn ; When Hndibras, whom thonghts and aking Twixt sleeping kept, all night, and waking, Began to...

...so " it is said, we 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...boil'd, the morn From .black to red began to turn. " son whom we admire; and that, when we " smile at Butler's allusion, we for a moment " conceive him...