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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... "
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - 1835 - 340 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 out his nap, jo And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn ; When Hudibras, whom thoughts...
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Hudibras; with notes by T.R. Nash, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - 1835 - 410 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 out his nap, so " old round-headed stoics to find out whether bonum was corpus, or " virtue an animal ; about which...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Two Departments of ..., Volume 2

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1837 - 510 pages
...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...
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The Works of George Campbell: Philosophy of rhetoric

George Campbell - Theology - 1840 - 450 pages
...Butler, amongst a thousand other instances, hath given us those which follow : And now had Phcebus in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap : And, like...lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn 4. Here the low allegorical style of the first couplet, and the simile used in the second, afford us...
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The Family Library (Harper)., Volume 99

Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...of this association in the following lines of Hudibras : ' And now had Phteims in the lap Of Thctia 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 Upon the tip of the Bear's tail's end; That as he whisk'd...
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Elements of Mental Philosophy Enbracing the Two Departments of the ..., Volume 2

Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1841 - 512 pages
...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...
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The Romancist, and novelist's library. Ed. by W. Hazlitt, Volume 3

1841 - 556 pages
...recollection soon gunk together, bound in the chains of sleep. Г CHAPTER XI. " The Sun had long «¡осе, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lohster hoil'd, the moon From hlack to red hegan to turn, When, ruhbing first, my drowsy eyes, From...
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Softness, by the author of 'Hardness'.

Charles Henry Knox - 1842 - 968 pages
...having reached the tum, they took the bridle-road, and returned by Rydalmere to Ambleside. ******* ' 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,' hefore (as the fine writers have it) sleep visited...
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The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and ..., Volume 3

1842 - 584 pages
...idea, and impregnating ' it with something extraneous.' In Butler's well-known comparison. ' When, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn,' we discover a clever effort of wit, ' associating the original idea ' with a thing to which , in some...
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Elements of Criticism

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1842 - 512 pages
...attempt and putting on, W^ith entering manfully and urging; Not slow approaches, like a virgin. Canto 1. The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nup ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Part II. Canto II. Books,...
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