...direction of the author's ideas. The following description of morning is equally original : — Now, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. The following accumulation of similitudes in Swift's Tale of a Tub may amuse at once from their oddity,...

...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 out his nap, 30 And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn, When Hudibras, whom thoughts...

...spellings, and firings, have in our forefathers' days, between us and France, been common. Cartic. The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap. Hudibrat. They took him napping in his bed. Id. So long as I'm at the forge you are still taking your...

...write) to take his rider up ; So Hudibras his ('tis well known) Would often do to set him down. CANTO I. The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. PART II. CANTOS, The most accomplished way of using books at present, is to serve them as some do lords,...

...suffer'd for their faith. Each strMng to make good his own, As by thfoequel shall be shown. The БНП had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his...boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn, When Hudibras, whom thoughts and nHnc, 'Twixt sleeping kept all night, and waking, Began to rub his...

...formal comparison. Take as an instance the following comparison from Hudibras ; " And now had Phoebus in the lap " Of Thetis taken out his nap; • " And, like a lobster boiled, the morn " From black to red began to turn. We find illustrations of burlesque also in those...

...given as an example of the union of incongruous ideas, in bombastic writing : " And now had Phoebus in the lap " Of Thetis taken out his nap ; " And like a lobster boiled, the morn " From black to red began to turn." The sublime ideas connected with the sun, and...

...made red by boiling." — Grose. Butler's ingenious simile will occur to the reader :— When, lite a lobster boil'd, the Morn From black to red began to turn. •f Ordained — ie become clergymen. § Transported. ** Child.— Hence our useful word, kidnapper...

...by the poet by means of some accidental coincidence; as in the wellknown passage in Hudibras : — " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boyl'd, the morn From black to red began to turn." * The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity...

...by the poet by means 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 lobster boyl'd, the mom From black to red began to turn."* The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity...