 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 pages
...which adventuring to stickle, They're sent away in nasty pickle. THE sun had long since, in the lap 29 Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And like 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 rub... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1817 - 532 pages
...attempt and putting on, With entering manfully and urging; Not slow approaches, like a virgin. Canto 1. The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Part II. canto 2. And in this the world may perceive the difference between the integrity of a generous... | |
 | Charles Frederick Bennett - English poetry - 1817 - 174 pages
...clime " Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl." or as Butler less dignified expresses it, " The sun had long since in the lap " Of Thetis taken...out his nap ; " And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn f Froni black to red began to turn." This latter description did not present itself to, my mind on... | |
 | 1829 - 612 pages
...to examples. First, wit may be said to arise from a ludicrous comparison : — ' And now had Phoebus in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap ; And, like...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn.' Hudibras, part ii. canto "2. Here there is no real connexion between a lobster boiling and the morn,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1819 - 644 pages
...have sufi'er'd 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...lobster boil'd, the Morn From black to red began to turn ; When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aching TVixt sleeping kept, all night, and waking, Began to rub... | |
 | Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 456 pages
...have sufferM 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...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 rub... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 412 pages
...have suffer'd 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...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 rub... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...his Hudibras, compares the change of night into day, to the change of colour in a boiled lobster. " The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken...boil'd, the morn From black to red, began to turn : When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aching 'Twixt sleeping kept all night, and waking, Began to rub... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 416 pages
...faith; Eaeh striving to make good his own, As by the sequel shall be shown. The sun had long sinee, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From blaek to red began to turn; When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aking 'Twixt sleeping kept, all night,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - English poetry - 1819 - 560 pages
...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 boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn ; _ When Hudibras, whom thoughts and aking, 'Twixt sleeping kept all night, and waking, Tl!' i ' •... | |
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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... 
