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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... "
The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine, conducted ... - Page 240
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My ..., Volume 1, Issue 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 338 pages
...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...boil'd, the morn. From black to red began to turn. The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety; it sees all things in one, it piii tail'...
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 570 pages
...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...boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety: it sees all things in one^upiii nell'...
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Elements of Criticism: With Analyses, and Translation of Ancient and Foreign ...

Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...attempt and putting on, Not slow approaches, like a virgin. Canto I. With entering manfully and urging; The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...his nap; And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From block to red began to turn. Fart II. Canto II. Books, like men their authors, have but one way of coming...
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 462 pages
...the poet by means of same accidental coincidence ; as in the well known pass-age from Hudibras : — The Sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From bl-ick to red began to turn. The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety : it sees...
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Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts ..., Volume 1

Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...is the breath of morn ; her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 9. The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap ; And, like a lobster boil'd, the moon From black to red began to turn. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 10. The morning lark, the messenger of day,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...simplicity of nature. Some of the short burlesque descriptions are inimitable. For example, of Horning — n all ye creatures, to extol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end ! Fairest mom From black to red began to turn. Of Night— The sun grew low and left the skies, Put down, some...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...simplicity of nature. Some of the short burlesque descriptions are inimitable. For example, of Morning — tly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in liis nap, Aud, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn. Of Night— The sun...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 7

Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1848 - 576 pages
...unexpected resemblance excites in us. Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night intoday, viz. : " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject — " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest...
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Douglas Jerrold's shilling magazine

DOUGLAS JERROLD - 1848 - 578 pages
...unexpected resemblance excites in us. Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night into day, viz.: " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject— " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest...
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Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, Volume 7

Douglas Jerrold - English periodicals - 1848 - 578 pages
...unexpected resemblance excites in us. Butler's ludicrous simile upon the change of night into day, viz. : " The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken...boil'd, the morn, From black to red began to turn." And Spenser's beautiful comparison on the same subject — " At last the golden oriental gate Of greatest...
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